This week's theme: eponyms.

gargantuan (gar-GAN-choo-uhn) adjective

   Gigantic.

[After Gargantua, a voracious giant, the father of Pantagruel,
in a series of novels by François Rabelais (c. 1490-1553).]

Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=gargantuan

-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

  "Walls were built around Constantinople, gargantuan chains were set
   over the Bosporus and the Golden Horn to prevent any attempts by the
   enemy to enter."
   Vercihan Ziflioglu; A Sole Burned Gate; Turkish Daily News (Istanbul);
   Mar 26, 2008.

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