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Lilliput
[ lil-i-puht, -puht ]
noun
- an imaginary country inhabited by people about 6 inches (15 centimeters) tall, described in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
Lilliput
- The first land that Lemuel Gulliver visits in Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift . The inhabitants, though human in form, are only six inches tall.
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Notes
Something “lilliputian” (lil-i- pyooh -shuhn) is very small. The expression is especially appropriate for a miniature version of something.
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Example Sentences
Mara, of course, has that other-worldly star aura: remarkably perfect skin and a body from Lilliput.
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He knew that around the center they contemptuously called him "Lilliput."
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Faithful to the promise of his great master, the youthful Cavalcadour called in Lilliput Street the next day.
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Then, the masked shrew—for so we humans have named this escape from Lilliput—flashed out into the open.
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It was a satire, of course—Gulliver's Lilliput outdone—a sort of scientific, socialistic, mathematical jamboree.
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Arbuthnot says he "lent the book to an old gentleman, who went immediately to his map to search for Lilliput."
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