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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An Englishman who travels to the imaginary lands of Lilliput, Brobdingnag, and Laputa and the country of the Houyhnhnms in Jonathan Swift's satire Gulliver's Travels (1726).
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- noun a fictional Englishman who travels to the imaginary land of Lilliput in a satirical novel by Jonathan Swift
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Examples
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"I still don't even get what they mean," wrote one commenter under the name Gulliver.
To Understand Washington Ads, You've Got to Be a Code Breaker Thomas Catan 2011
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You mention Rabelais, but perhaps Gulliver is sitting in the background here as well, a giant at times and a traveller to strange lands not unlike out own, when you scrape away the surface.
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One is reminded of the Lilliputians in Gulliver's Travels, when the Big-Endians fought the Little-Endians to decide which end of the egg one should break open first.
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According to Variety, Black is set to star in "Gulliver's Travels," a contemporary take on the classic Jonathan Swift story.
Jack Black Packs His Bags For ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ » MTV Movies Blog 2008
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One is reminded of the Lilliputians in Gulliver's Travels, when the Big-Endians fought the Little-Endians to decide which end of the egg one should break open first.
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Lemuel Gulliver is one of the very few fictitious characters who are known and instantly recognized the world over, putting him in a class with Sherlock Holmes, Don Quixote, and a few names from Shakespeare.
Sock Puppet, son of Sock Puppet superversive 2006
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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), the great Irish writer and satirist, makes a curious reference to Mars's satellites in Gulliver's Travels.
June 2005 2005
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But things change when Gulliver is convicted of treason over a fire in the royal palace.
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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), the great Irish writer and satirist, makes a curious reference to Mars's satellites in Gulliver's Travels.
Shazbot 2005
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This ties in with Lewis's observation that Gulliver is a commonplace little man and Alice a commonplace little girl ....
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