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Word: Gargantuan
Speech Type: Adjective
Etymology:
late 16th century: from Gargantua, the name of a voracious giant in Rabelais' book of the same name (1534), + -an
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ɡɑːˈɡantjʊən
Dialects: British English
Definition:
enormous
Short Definition:enormous
Examples:- a gargantuan appetite
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