Lilliput

[ lil-i-puht, -puht ]

noun

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

Lilliput

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.

Notes

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

Example Sentences

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 Washington Post

Mara, of course, has that other-worldly star aura: remarkably perfect skin and a body from Lilliput.

From The Daily Beast

He knew that around the center they contemptuously called him "Lilliput."

From Project Gutenberg

Faithful to the promise of his great master, the youthful Cavalcadour called in Lilliput Street the next day.

From Project Gutenberg

Then, the masked shrew—for so we humans have named this escape from Lilliput—flashed out into the open.

From Project Gutenberg

It was a satire, of course—Gulliver's Lilliput outdone—a sort of scientific, socialistic, mathematical jamboree.

From Project Gutenberg

Arbuthnot says he "lent the book to an old gentleman, who went immediately to his map to search for Lilliput."

From Project Gutenberg