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Gul·li·ver | \ ˈgə-lə-vər 
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\Definition of Gulliver
: an Englishman in Jonathan Swift's satire Gulliver's Travels who makes voyages to the imaginary lands of the Lilliputians, Brobdingnagians, Laputans, and Houyhnhnms
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