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Added 9 October 2026

gargantuan

/ɡɑːˈɡæn.t͡ʃu.ən/ adjective

adjective Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about gargantuan at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

Of great mass; huge and bulky.
a jumbo jet

Origin

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”).

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