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Small

//smɔl// adj, adv, name, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.

    "A small serving of ice cream."

  2. 2
    Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.; Humiliated or insignificant.

    "The bullies had succeeded in making him feel small."

  3. 3
    Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.; Having a small penis, muscles, or other important body parts, regardless of overall body size.

    "(of genitals)"

  4. 4
    Young, as a child. figuratively, not-comparable

    "Remember when the children were small?"

  5. 5
    Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written or printed letters. not-comparable

    ""I've got catholic tastes. Catholic with a small "c", of course.""

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  1. 6
    Evincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.

    "A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man."

  2. 7
    Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.

    "a small space of time"

  3. 8
    Synonym of little (“of an industry or institution(s) therein: operating on a small scale, unlike larger counterparts”).

    "small science"

  4. 9
    Slender, gracefully slim. archaic
  5. 10
    That is small (the manufactured size). especially

    "I'll have a small coffee, thanks."

Adjective
  1. 1
    made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth) wordnet
  2. 2
    limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent wordnet
  3. 3
    relatively moderate, limited, or small wordnet
  4. 4
    (of a voice) faint wordnet
  5. 5
    lowercase wordnet
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  1. 6
    not large but sufficient in size or amount wordnet
  2. 7
    slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope wordnet
  3. 8
    (of children and animals) young, immature wordnet
  4. 9
    have fine or very small constituent particles wordnet
  5. 10
    low or inferior in station or quality wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    In a small fashion

    "Don't write very small!"

  2. 2
    In or into small pieces.

    "That's going to go in there. We've got some chives small chopped as well."

  3. 3
    To a small extent. obsolete

    "It small avails my mood."

  4. 4
    In a low tone; softly. obsolete

    "That's all one: you shall play it in a mask, and / you may speak as small as you will."

Adverb
  1. 1
    on a small scale wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

    "“People have biases towards species that are glamorous,” said Dr. Ernie Small, author of the study and taxonomist for Agriculture Canada."

Noun
  1. 1
    One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured, smaller than a medium. especially, noun-from-verb, uncountable
  2. 2
    a garment size for a small person wordnet
  3. 3
    An item labelled or denoted as being that size. countable, especially, noun-from-verb

    "Two smalls and a large, please."

  4. 4
    the slender part of the back wordnet
  5. 5
    One who fits an item of that size. countable, especially, noun-from-verb
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  1. 6
    Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back. countable, noun-from-verb, rare

    "I got a splitting pain in the small of my back"

Verb
  1. 1
    To make little or less. noun-from-verb, obsolete, transitive
  2. 2
    To become small; to dwindle. intransitive, noun-from-verb

    "And smalled till she was nought at all."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English smal, from Old English smæl (“small, narrow, slender”), from Proto-Germanic *smalaz (“small”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mal-, *(s)mel- (“small, mean, malicious”). Cognate with Scots smal; sma (“small”); West Frisian smel (“narrow”); Dutch smal (“narrow”); German schmal (“narrow, small”); Low German small (“narrow”); Danish, Norwegian, Swedish smal (“narrow; thin; slender”); Latin malus (“bad”); Russian ма́лый (mályj, “small”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English smal, from Old English smæl (“small, narrow, slender”), from Proto-Germanic *smalaz (“small”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mal-, *(s)mel- (“small, mean, malicious”). Cognate with Scots smal; sma (“small”); West Frisian smel (“narrow”); Dutch smal (“narrow”); German schmal (“narrow, small”); Low German small (“narrow”); Danish, Norwegian, Swedish smal (“narrow; thin; slender”); Latin malus (“bad”); Russian ма́лый (mályj, “small”).

Etymology 3

From Middle English smal, from Old English smæl (“small, narrow, slender”), from Proto-Germanic *smalaz (“small”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mal-, *(s)mel- (“small, mean, malicious”). Cognate with Scots smal; sma (“small”); West Frisian smel (“narrow”); Dutch smal (“narrow”); German schmal (“narrow, small”); Low German small (“narrow”); Danish, Norwegian, Swedish smal (“narrow; thin; slender”); Latin malus (“bad”); Russian ма́лый (mályj, “small”).

Etymology 4

From Middle English smal, from Old English smæl (“small, narrow, slender”), from Proto-Germanic *smalaz (“small”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mal-, *(s)mel- (“small, mean, malicious”). Cognate with Scots smal; sma (“small”); West Frisian smel (“narrow”); Dutch smal (“narrow”); German schmal (“narrow, small”); Low German small (“narrow”); Danish, Norwegian, Swedish smal (“narrow; thin; slender”); Latin malus (“bad”); Russian ма́лый (mályj, “small”).

Etymology 5

Inherited from Old English smæl (“small”). Compare Smail. First attested in the 1200s.

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