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

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

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

The fresh bed linen you're used to seeing in your hotel room is not owned by the hotels themselves, but by laundry firms like Lilliput.

From BBC

The attraction appeared in the 2009 episode Small Mercies when a murder victim was laid out like Gulliver in Lilliput amongst the tiny houses.

From BBC

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

From Los Angeles Times