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.

Example Sentences

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

Jonathan Swift’s Dr. Lemuel Gulliver sails to Lilliput, land of pygmies, and Brobdingnag, land of giants.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2020

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

From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly