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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--gargantuan 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. -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. X-Bonus I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. -Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher (1889-1951)

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