little
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Is little a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. Insignificant, trivial.Examples: "Listen up, you little shit."offensive
2. (of a sibling) Younger.Examples: "This is my little sister."
3. (often capitalized) 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.Examples: "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."capitalizedoften
4. (often capitalized) 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.Examples: "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"capitalizedderogatoryoften
5. (of an industry or other field, or institution(s) therein, often capitalized) Operating on a small scale.Examples: "Little Steel"; "Little Science"capitalizedoften
noun (English)
1. (chiefly uncountable or in the singular) A small amount.Examples: "I hope the little we've done will be useful."; "Little did he do to make me comfortable."; "If you want some cake, there’s a little in the refrigerator."singularuncountable
2. (countable, informal) A child, particularly an infant.countableinformal
3. An adult in a child-like role, or in the more junior of two paired roles.Examples: "He was there the night of Cristoph's party. All the littles were assigned to their bigs. Ian and Christoph had rushed the same fraternity. When they became upperclassmen, they both ended up on the board."; "She added that the relationship between bigs and littles is "what each pair makes of it," and that a lot of the pairs often get dinner together and become close friends."; "Some traditions of the chapter include lineages with bigs and littles, receiving of paddles from a big, and a national stroll, Wolsch-Gallia said."Antonyms: bigcountable
4. An adult in a child-like role, or in the more junior of two paired roles.Antonyms: bigcountable
5. An adult in a child-like role, or in the more junior of two paired roles.Examples: "People with [dissociative identity] disorder frequently have a younger personality among their distinctive personalities. However, it’s believed that the "little" may not be a separate personality. Instead, it may be a regressed version of the original personality."Antonyms: bigcountable
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Definition source: Wiktionary