Where does “Lilliputian” come from?

Lilliputian comes from English literary coinage based on Lilliput, the fictional island of tiny people in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, used to describe something or someone extremely small.

Lilliputian (English): Alternative form of lilliputian

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of lilliputian

Ancestry of “Lilliputian”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishlilliputAny of various small freshwater mussels of the...
2EnglishLilliputAn imaginary island populated by tiny people, in the book Gulliver's Travels

Words derived from “Lilliputian”

Every word from English Lilliput →Every word from English lilliput →
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