Lilliput

[ lil-i-puht, -puh t ]

/ ˈlɪl ɪˌpʌt, -pət /

an imaginary country inhabited by people about 6 inches (15 cm) tall, described in Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

Example sentences from the Web for lilliput

Mara, of course, has that other-worldly star aura: remarkably perfect skin and a body from Lilliput.

CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards Honor the Next Big Designers |Robin Givhan |November 15, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
The capital of the kingdom of Lilliput appeared to be partially surrounded by a vast and melancholy campagna of turnips.

The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 |E. Rameur
Friendly, well-meaning, and fumbling hands will stretch out to bind the poet's heart in the maddening pack-thread of Lilliput.

Plum Pudding |Christopher Morley
About this time there came to Lilliput ambassadors from Blefuscu, suing for peace.

Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) |Various

Gulliver asked the king of Lilliput for a large —— of iron bars and a considerable —— of rope.

Practical Exercises in English |Huber Gray Buehler
He looked like a Hebraic Gulliver in Lilliput, and the unities were in tatters.

Ancestors |Gertrude Atherton

Lilliput

[ (lil-i-puht) ]

The first land that Lemuel Gulliver visits in Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift. The inhabitants, though human in form, are only six inches tall.

Something “lilliputian” (lil-i- pyooh-shuhn) is very small. The expression is especially appropriate for a miniature version of something.