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Definition of Lilliput
1. Noun. A land imagined by Jonathan Swift that was inhabited by tiny people.
Definition of Lilliput
1. a very small person [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lilliput
Literary usage of Lilliput
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift (1894)
"... the Metropolis of lilliput describ'd, together with the Emperor's Palace.
A Conversation between the Author and a principal Secretary, ..."
2. The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of by George Atherton Aitken, John Arbuthnot (1892)
"... transcribed out of Captain Lemuel Gulliver's general description of lilliput,
... during my stay in lilliput, I was very inquisitive about the state of ..."
3. Everyday Classics: Primer-eighth Reader. by Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Fannie Wyche Dunn, Mildred Batchelder (1917)
"GULLIVER IN lilliput There have been many stories invented, that is, made up,
... Me has his imaginary traveler, Gulliver, go first to lilliput, ..."
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