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lilliputian

British pronunciation/lˌɪlɪpjˈuːʃən/
American pronunciation/ˌɫɪɫəpˈjuʃən/
Lilliputian
[NOUN]
1

a 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan Swift

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2

a very small person (resembling a Lilliputian)

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lilliputian
[ADJECTIVE]
1

tiny; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Lilliput

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2

very small

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3

(informal) small and of little importance

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Examples
1What even is a lilliputian?
2Here this fantastic array they say it's just like Gulliver and the Lilliputian's a fantastic array.
3I had to hold it like it was a Lilliputian situation.
4It is quite true that the man mountain Gulliver, being 12 times as high, and proportioned similarly in all parts to a Lilliputian, would be 12 x 12 x 12 as great in volume.
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