Meaning of little | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Small in size.
2. small; little
3. Small and underdeveloped, particularly (of a male) in the genitals.
4. Somewhat; a bit: felt a little better.
5. Insignificant, trivial.
6. By small degrees or increments; gradually.
7. Used to belittle a person.
   offensive
8. At rare intervals:infrequently, occasionally, rarely, seldom, sporadically.
9. Very young, of childhood age.
10. (only) a small amount. He knows little of the real world. min, weinig كميَّه قَليلَه малко pouco málo wenig kun lidt ελάχιστο, ελάχιστα πράγματα poco vähe کم vähän peu de chose (sur) מעט थोड़ा-सा, कुछ, बहुत कम premalo keveset sedikit lítið, fátt eitt poco ほんの少し 소량 nedaug maz sedikit weiniglite, littniewiele لږ pouco puţine lucruri немного málo malo malo lite, föga เล็กน้อย az miktar 一點點 небагато تھوڑا lượng nhỏ 一些
11. Younger.
12. gradually. Little by little we began to get to know him. bietjie-vir-bietjie تَدْريجيّاً малко по малко pouco a pouco poznenáhlu, pozvolna nach und nach lidt efter lidt; efterhånden λίγο λίγοpoco a poco vähehaaval به تدریج؛ کم کم vähän kerrassaan petit à petit לְאָט לְאָט धीरे-धीरे, शनै: शनै: postupno, pomalo apránként berangsur-angsur, sedikit demi sedikit smám saman a poco a poco 少しずつ 점차 pamažu pamazām sedikit demi sedikit beetje bij beetje litt etter litt, gradvis po trochu په تدريج سره po...
13. Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
    capitalized, often
14. [size] pequeño-a; [quantity] poco, muy poco, un poquito;___ by ___ → poco a poco.
15. To imply that the inhabitants of the place have an insular attitude and are hostile to those they perceive as foreign.
    capitalized, derogatory, often
16. Small in size: a little dining room.
17. Having few members.
18. Short in extent or duration; brief: There is little time left.
19. Operating on a small scale.
    capitalized, often
20. Unimportant; trivial: a little matter.
21. Short in duration; brief.
22. Narrow; petty: mean little comments; a little mind consumed with trivia.
23. Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow, shallow, contracted; mean, illiberal, ungenerous.

Equivalents

Examples

“This is a little table.”

“It’s only a little way now.”

“"You are a little, little man," she proclaimed, staring obviously below my waist as she pronounced the second "little." It was almost disappointing. I'd heard that one before, but it still left a new scar each time.”

“It’s of little importance.”

“Urania speaks with darken’d brow: ⁠‘Thou pratest here where thou art least; ⁠This faith has many a purer priest, And many an abler voice than thou: […]’”

“Listen up, you little shit.”

“Did he tell you any embarrassing stories about when she was little?”

“That’s the biggest little boy I’ve ever seen.”

“This is my little sister.”

“If you want to find Little France, take any turning on the north side of Leicester square, and wander in a zigzag fashion Oxford Streetwards. The Little is rather smokier and more squalid than the Great France upon the other side of the Manche.”

“In the forties, hurdy-gurdy men could still be heard in all those East Coast cities with strong Italian neighbourhoods: New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston. A visit to Baltimore’s Little Italy at that time was like a trip to Italy itself.”

““The theatre was bought by the Croatian immigrants as so many immigrants came here in the ’30s and mostly for mining jobs, but in Schumacher itself it was called little Zagreb, and Zagreb is the capital city of Croatia. There were so many of them that they wanted to have their own little community, so they bought the theatre and they renovated it at that time, remodelled it and made it into a Croatian Hall,” she explained.”

“He is the embodiment of Fleet Street bullying, using his newspaper to peddle his Little-England, curtain-twitching Alan Partridgesque view of the world, which manages to combine sanctimonious, pompous moralising and prurient, voyeuristic, judgmental obsession”

“little herd”

“Little Steel”

smaller steel companies, as contrasted with Big Steel

“Little Science”

science performed by individuals or small teams, as contrasted with Big Science

“I feel better after my little sleep.”

“The long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise, / Because their natures are little.”

“Showing unmistakably what a little person he really was, in June 1949 he wrote his newly married daughter with nauseating disregard for the truth”

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