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Definition of Smaller
1. Adjective. Small or little relative to something else.
Definition of Smaller
1. Adjective. (comparative of small) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Smaller
1. small [adj] - See also: small
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smaller
Literary usage of Smaller
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1894)
"KP POWELL, CLINTON, NT OUR smaller colleges also labor under the extremest ...
Our smaller colleges are divided now into two groups of students ; those ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1893)
"In all of these, apart from group V., the variations were greater than where the
average normal curves were greater, and smaller where these were smaller. ..."
3. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of by Charles Darwin (1889)
"... and common species, vary most—Species of the larger genera in each country
vary more frequently than the species of the smaller genera—Many of the a\ ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The lower end of the windpipe divides into two smaller tubes, ... each of which
enters a lobe of the lungs and subdivides into numerous smaller branches. ..."
5. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin (1878)
"... vary most — Species of the larger genera in each country vary more frequently
than the species of the smaller genera—Many of the species of the larger ..."
6. Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1902)
"... much diffused, and common species, vary most—Species of the larger genera in
each country vary more frequently than the species of the smaller ..."