gargantuan
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
See also: Gargantuan
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French Gargantua, a giant with a very large appetite in Rabelais's The Inestimable Life of Gargantua. Rabelais derived Gargantua from the Portuguese and Spanish garganta (“throat”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɡɑɹˈɡæn.t͡ʃu.ən/
Audio (US) (file)
Adjective[edit]
gargantuan (comparative more gargantuan, superlative most gargantuan)
- Huge; immense; tremendous.
- 2018 May 4, Tom English, “Steven Gerrard: A 'seriously clever or recklessly stupid' Rangers appointment”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- Some distant observers of the Scottish football scene reckon that all - all! - Gerrard has to do is beat Celtic to become a legend. Even if that was true - and, demonstrably, it is not - then it would be a gargantuan task all on its own.
- 2019 September 14, Elizabeth Paton, “A Fashion/Food Blowout in the Shadow of Brexit”, in New York Times[2]:
- Or the twinkling dining rooms: all frilly net curtains, pink walls, kaleidoscope-patterned carpets and tiny tables, crammed with teetering piles of hand-painted ceramic crockery (think plates covered in colorful swirls and cocktail mugs shaped like heaving bosoms or ladies’ faces) that showcase gargantuan portions of Italian fare.
- (obsolete) Of the giant Gargantua or his appetite.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
huge
|
of the giant Gargantua or his appetite
|
References[edit]
- ^ Gourd, Pumpkin. See Budge Ref, p 803A; (from 'Rev 12'--Revue Egyptologique publiee sous la direction de MM Brugsch, F Chabas, and Eug. Revillout (vol I-XIV))
Further reading[edit]
- “gargantuan”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “gargantuan”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “gargantuan”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “gargantuan”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “gargantuan”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “gargantuan” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.
- “gargantuan”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Categories:
- English terms derived from French
- English terms derived from Spanish
- English 4-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English lemmas
- English adjectives
- English terms with quotations
- English terms with obsolete senses
- en:Size
- English eponyms
- English terms derived from fiction