Gulliver
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- noun
- /ˈɡʌlɪvər/
- Literature
- In Jonathan Swift's book, Gulliver embarks on incredible journeys to lands like Lilliput.
- Gulliver's Travels
- Gulliver's Travels
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- We're Gulliver with his suit on, you know, and then we, we think all the animals because they're just body, they're terrible.
Examples
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But it is important to notice that Gulliver's great deed is not artful in a complex, mechanical, daedalean way.
Academic text (2016) -
Well, welcome to Lilliput, Mr., Mr. Gulliver.
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How are we to believe anything you say, Gulliver?
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My name is Gulliver, your Majesty.
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At this point in the story, Gulliver is still unaware of his good fortune.
Academic text (2016) -
Being well over six feet tall, I felt as awkward as Gulliver in Lilliput.
Fiction book (1992) -
Swift alluded to it in Gulliver's Travels.
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Two Boy Guards, fifteen, rush in with ropes to bind Gulliver for his ceremonial death.
Fiction book (1998) -
The obvious difference, though, is that Gulliver's cables are not rigged into compound pulleys or any other mechanical contrivance.
Academic text (2016) -
The Lilliputians are crafty, frivolous, and domineering, but Gulliver's lucky clumsiness is no more admirable.
Academic text (2016)
Synonyms
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The main character and storyteller in Jonathan Swift's novel who travels to imaginary lands like Lilliput
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gulliver was invented by Jonathan Swift as the name of his travelling hero in 'Gulliver's Travels'. A helpful way to remember the name is to think of the English word gull ('to fool'), because Swift's story often makes fun of people and their customs, so Gulliver is the traveller who shows human faults.