Lilliput

American  

[lil-i-puht, -puht] / ˈlɪl ɪˌpʌt, -pət /

noun

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

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Lilliput Cultural  

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

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Lilliput

And it is in part to show the world that Liechtenstein is not Lilliput that it has just sent the Metropolitan Museum of Art the largest exhibition ever mounted by that institution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

From the ashes of Morey’s proposed book came “Small Ball,” about a small team with big basketball dreams set on the fictional Lilliput island out of “Gulliver’s Travels.”

From Washington Times ● Dec. 14, 2023

The figures are as small as Jorge Flores’s eyeballs as he peers into the window of the barbershop, like Gulliver in the land of Lilliput.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2021

Lilliput Services in Belfast is one of the unsung companies without which the UK's hotel industry could not exist.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2021

The first place is Lilliput, an island where all the people are less than six inches tall.

From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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