Gulliver's Travels

American  

[guhl-uh-verz] / ˈgʌl ə vərz /

noun

1. a social and political satire (1726) by Jonathan Swift, narrating the voyages of Lemuel Gulliver to four imaginary regions: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the land of the Houyhnhnms.

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Gulliver's Travels Cultural  

1. (1726) A satire by Jonathan Swift. Lemuel Gulliver, an Englishman, travels to exotic lands, including Lilliput (where the people are six inches tall), Brobdingnag (where the people are seventy feet tall), and the land of the Houyhnhnms (where horses are the intelligent beings, and humans, called Yahoos, are mute brutes of labor).

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Probably the most famous image from this book is of the tiny Lilliputians having tied down the sleeping giant, Gulliver.

Example Sentences

The Underground Railroad, patterned after Gulliver’s Travels, took its main character through a series of episodes, each representing what Whitehead has called a “different state of American possibility” with regard to race.

From Slate • Jul. 11, 2019

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, the classic satire first published in 1726, was rated the hardest.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2019

But Gulliver's Travels, as it is now known, immediately garnered acclaim “from the cabinet council to the nursery”, as Swift's friend, the writer John Gay, reported.

From Nature • Sep. 26, 2017

It is believed to have served as inspiration for Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travels – a first edition of which is also included in the sale.

From The Guardian • Jun. 3, 2017

In 1704 Jonathan Swift, later the author of Gulliver’s Travels, published a little satire entitled The Battle of the Books.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton