Brobdingnag

American  

[brob-ding-nag] / ˈbrɒb dɪŋˌnæg /

noun

1. the region in Swift's Gulliver's Travels where everything was of enormous size.

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Example Sentences

Jonathan Swift’s Dr. Lemuel Gulliver sails to Lilliput, land of pygmies, and Brobdingnag, land of giants.

From Los Angeles Times

And, like Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver in Brobdingnag, he is interrogated about his culture by his hosts so intensively that he begins to doubt his own human identity.

From Nature

In the giants' realm of Brobdingnag, Gulliver even becomes a kind of human microscope.

From Nature

I had thought they were adults and maybe citizens of Brobdingnag, at least.

From Literature

The Brobdingnag object he ended up fabricating, which was 10 feet tall, became the first in a series of household goods that he has scaled up to three and a half times their normal size.

From New York Times