Brobdingnag

English

Proper noun

Brobdingnag

1. A fictional country inhabited by giants, which appears in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
   • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag):

     […] 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 […]

Coordinate terms

• Lilliput

Derived terms

• Brobdingnagian