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Brobdingnag

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Noun1.Brobdingnag - a land imagined by Jonathan Swift where everything was enormous
fictitious place, imaginary place, mythical place - a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings


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To avoid which censure I fear I have run too much into the other extreme; and that if this treatise should happen to be translated into the language of Brobdingnag (which is the general name of that kingdom,) and transmitted thither, the king and his people would have reason to complain that I had done them an injury, by a false and diminutive representation.
Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context
In Brobdingnag, on the other hand, the coarseness of mankind is exhibited by the magnifying process.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
As a contrast to what you have just read you may like to hear of Gulliver's first adventures in Brobdingnag, the land of giants.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
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