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What does Brobdingnag mean?

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Proper noun
  1. A fictional country inhabited by giants, which appears in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
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And he pointed to one that might have been used in Brobdingnag.
What child, or adult, can forget the giants of Brobdingnag, the tiny folk of Lilliput, the Houyhnhms, and to what extent are we all Yahoos?
Were it not for a brief foray into a land of giants that we assume to be Brobdingnag, Letterman''s adventure would be merely Gulliver''s Travel.
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.
It is much larger than a letter, unless, perhaps, one carries on a correspondence with a giant from Brobdingnag.
In Brobdingnag Swift is generally said to be looking, as Scott expresses it, through the other end of the telescope.

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