Meaning of lilliput | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An imaginary island populated by tiny people, in the book Gulliver's Travels.
2. Any of various small freshwater mussels of the genus Toxolasma, found mainly in the southeastern United States.
3. A generic fictional country, sometimes contrasted with a counterpart Brobdingnag or Blefuscu.
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4. A locality in the Shire of Indigo, north eastern Victoria, Australia.

Examples

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

“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””

“Dermot McAleese (2004), Economics for Business: Competition, Macro-stability, and Globalisation: “Two economies, Lilliput and Oz, exist beside each other[…]””

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