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Gargantua is the name of a giant king in François Rabelais's 16th-century satiric novel Gargantua, the second part of a five-volume series about the giant and his son Pantagruel. All of the details of Gargantua's life befit a giant. He rides a colossal mare whose tail switches so violently that it fells the entire forest of Orleans. He has an enormous appetite, such that in one incident he inadvertently swallows five pilgrims while eating a salad. The scale of everything connected with Gargantua led to the adjective gargantuan, which since William Shakespeare's time has been used for anything of tremendous size or volume.
Examples of gargantuan in a Sentence
Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2025
The Las Vegas Sphere is something of an absurd object, even for Vegas, a gargantuan metal dome wrapped in LED screens.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
There are moments when Guerrero looks tantalizingly close — a single swing that teases a gargantuan hot streak.
—Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 25 July 2025
From his own Dwarf Brazilian banana plant, Silber recently harvested a gargantuan cluster of bananas that included 200 fruit.
Vegetables.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 25 July 2025
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“Gargantuan.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gargantuan. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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gargantuan
adjective
from Gargantua, a giant with an enormous appetite in books by the French author François Rabelais
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