Lilliput

[ lil-i-puht, -puh t ]

/ ˈlɪl ɪˌpʌt, -pət /

an imaginary country inhabited by people about 6 inches (15 cm) tall, described in Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

QUIZZES

This teacher-developed 5th grade word list covers all the basics to prepare students for middle school.

Question 1 of 10

compact

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020

Mara, of course, has that other-worldly star aura: remarkably perfect skin and a body from Lilliput.
CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards Honor the Next Big Designers|Robin Givhan|November 15, 2011|DAILY BEAST
The capital of the kingdom of Lilliput appeared to be partially surrounded by a vast and melancholy campagna of turnips.
The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6|E. Rameur
Friendly, well-meaning, and fumbling hands will stretch out to bind the poet's heart in the maddening pack-thread of Lilliput.
Plum Pudding|Christopher Morley
About this time there came to Lilliput ambassadors from Blefuscu, suing for peace.
Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12)|Various

Gulliver asked the king of Lilliput for a large —— of iron bars and a considerable —— of rope.
Practical Exercises in English|Huber Gray Buehler
He looked like a Hebraic Gulliver in Lilliput, and the unities were in tatters.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton

Lilliput

[ (lil-i-puht) ]

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.

Something “lilliputian” (lil-i-pyooh-shuhn) is very small. The expression is especially appropriate for a miniature version of something.