Lilliput

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any of various small freshwater mussels of the genus Toxolasma, found mainly in the southeastern United States.
  2. 2
    a land imagined by Jonathan Swift that was inhabited by tiny people wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An imaginary island populated by tiny people, in the book Gulliver's Travels.

    "John Hardesty Bland (1971), Forests of Lilliput The Realm of Mosses and Lichens: “(book title)”"

  2. 2
    A generic fictional country, sometimes contrasted with a counterpart Brobdingnag or Blefuscu. broadly

    "Ronald E. Miller, Peter D. Blair (2009), Input-Output Analysis: Foundations and Extensions, page 388: “The Land of Lilliput plans to build a new power plant”"

  3. 3
    A locality in the Shire of Indigo, north eastern Victoria, Australia.

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"The Movement for the Self-Determination of Lilliput is here to defend the right of the Lilliputian language to exist."

Etymology

From Lilliput, in reference to their small size.

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