Meaning & use
Lilliput
The fictional island in Jonathan Swift's novel 'Gulliver's Travels', inhabited by people only a few inches tall.
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In the story, Gulliver wakes up shipwrecked on the shores of Lilliput, tied down by tiny ropes.
The tiny model village looked like something straight out of Lilliput.
A note on using this word
The adjective 'Lilliputian', derived from this name, is now used generally to describe anything remarkably small or petty.
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