huge, immense, vast, Brobdingnagian
(adjective) unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; “huge government spending”; “huge country estates”; “huge popular demand for higher education”; “a huge wave”; “the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains”; “immense numbers of birds”; “at vast (or immense) expense”; “the vast reaches of outer space”; “the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization”- W.R.Inge
Brobdingnagian
(adjective) huge; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Brobdingnag
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Brobdingnagian (comparative more Brobdingnagian, superlative most Brobdingnagian)
Of or pertaining to Brobdingnag.
(figuratively) Enormous, huge, far larger than is customary for such a thing.
• See also gigantic
• lilliputian
Brobdingnagian (plural Brobdingnagians)
A creature from Brobdingnag.
(figuratively) A giant.
brobdingnagian (comparative more brobdingnagian, superlative most brobdingnagian)
Alternative letter-case form of Brobdingnagian
Source: Wiktionary
Brob`ding*nag"i*an, a. Etym: [From Brobdingnag, a country of giants in "Gulliver's Travels."]
Definition: Colossal' of extraordinary height; gigantic.
– n.
Definition: A giant. [Spelt often Brobdignagian.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 May 2025
(noun) sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
