GARGANTUA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A voracious giant in Francois Rabelais' book of the same name

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

imaginary being; imaginary creature (a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction)

Derivation:

gargantuan (of great mass; huge and bulky)

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