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- Dictionarylittle/ˈlɪtl/
adjective
- 1. small in size, amount, or degree (often used to convey an appealing diminutiveness or express an affectionate or condescending attitude): "the plants will grow into little bushes" Similar Opposite
determiner
- 1. a small amount of: "we got a little help from a training scheme"
- 2. used to emphasize how small an amount is: "I have little doubt of their identity"
adverb
- 1. to a small extent: "he reminded me a little of my parents"
- 2. only to a small extent; not much or often (used for emphasis): "he was little known in this country"
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4 days ago · The meaning of LITTLE is not big. How to use little in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Little.
2 days ago · Online English Thesaurus from Collins: More than 500,000 synonyms and antonyms - With definitions, meanings, phrases, and examples.
3 days ago · Tiny, we read, competed with teeny, tinny, and tyny. The phrase little tine ~ tyne “a little bit” has been recorded, but the origin of this tyne is undetermined. This is all. Our oldest dictionaries tried to guess which foreign word might be the source of tiny. Danish tynd “thin” has been cited with some regularity.
2 days ago · 1:16. Banks and post offices will be closed on Thursday, July 4 in observance of Independence Day, however most major restaurant, grocery and retail store chains will remain open on the holiday ...
3 days ago · But probably the best-known Little Italy in the world is an area of Manhattan’s Lower East side in New York. Ninety percent of Italian immigrants who arrived in the US at the turn of the...
2 days ago · The Little Ice Age, by the anthropologist Brian Fagan of the University of California at Santa Barbara, describes the plight of European peasants from 1300 to 1850: famines, hypothermia, bread riots and the rise of despotic leaders brutalizing an increasingly dispirited peasantry.
4 days ago · Scholars have failed to agree on a definition of religion. There are, however, two general definition systems: the sociological/functional and the phenomenological/philosophical. Modern Western. The concept of religion originated in the modern era in the West.
