Meaning

1 senses

  1. Any of various small freshwater mussels of the genus Toxolasma, found mainly in the southeastern United States.

More definitions
  • a land imagined by Jonathan Swift that was inhabited by tiny people

Examples

2 sentences

  1. The extremists were chanting "death upon Lilliput."

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  2. The Movement for the Self-Determination of Lilliput is here to defend the right of the Lilliputian language to exist.

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Origin

From Lilliput, in reference to their small size.

From Lilliput, in reference to their small size.

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Forms

plural: lilliputs
Singularlilliput
Plurallilliputs

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
likenessB1likewiseB2lilaclilyA1limbB2
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