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miniature
[ min-ee-uh-cher, -choor, min-uh-cher ]
noun
- a representation or image of something on a small or reduced scale.
- a greatly reduced or abridged form or copy.
- a very small painting, especially a portrait, on ivory, vellum, or the like.
- the art of executing such a painting.
- an illumination in an illuminated manuscript or book.
adjective
- being, on, or represented on a small scale; reduced.
Synonyms: minuscule, tiny, diminutive, microscopic, minute
miniature
/ ˈmɪnɪtʃə /
noun
- a model, copy, or similar representation on a very small scale
- anything that is very small of its kind
- a very small painting, esp a portrait, showing fine detail on ivory or vellum
- a very small bottle of whisky or other spirits, which can hold 50 millilitres
- an illuminated letter or other decoration in a manuscript
- in miniatureon a small scale
games are real life in miniature
adjective
- greatly reduced in size
- on a small scale; minute
Other Words From
- super·mini·a·ture adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of miniature1
Word History and Origins
Origin of miniature1
Idioms and Phrases
- in miniature, in a reduced size; on a small scale:
The zoo exhibition offered a jungle in miniature.
Example Sentences
They placed 26 individuals of six different species in cages overnight and inserted the equivalent of miniature rectal thermometers into their cloacas.
Each one is a miniature universe in which the roof is the sky and a vertical post, called “the seat of the sun,” aligns with the sun’s rays every day at noon.
They’ll need miniature medical devices that fit on the spacecraft.
Instead, they use matrices with entries taken from miniature, or “modular,” number systems.
Scientists have been working on miniature needles for years.
She sends a miniature of her own image to the court, envious that it will enjoy a proximity she will never attain.
A representative assembly, John Adams wrote in 1776, “should be in miniature an exact portrait of the people at large.”
Underneath, a miniature version of the bug-crazy man is revealed, himself thwacking away in an alternate dimension.
As I stood over the mud barracks, my translator zeroed in on a miniature mud tank complete with a detailed main gun and top hatch.
For next to no money, the photographer Christine McConnell makes cakes and cookies that are their own miniature horror movies.
To advance in such circumstances was out of the question, he therefore set about building a miniature hut of snow.
The Countess drew a beautiful miniature from its case, which lay on the sofa near her, and presented it to her young charge.
One satisfactory way is by the use of a miniature buzzer transmitter.
Here and there the miniature forests of doura stood up almost still in the sunshine.
She was examining the ornament on the back of which was carved a miniature bar of music, with three or four notes.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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