Lilliput
Tiny people's island
Lilliput is a fictional island in Jonathan Swift's *Gulliver's Travels* (1726), inhabited by people roughly six inches tall.
The name has become shorthand for anything tiny or miniature: a Lilliput village of dollhouses.
The adjective Lilliputian describes something diminutive or trivially small-minded: Lilliputian concerns, Lilliputian bureaucrats.
- SwiftMoving with great speed
- BrobdingnagImaginary land of giants
- LemuelHebrew name meaning godly devotion
- voyageJourney by sea
novel · satire · allegory · fable · parody · irony · mockery · caricature
Extremely small in size
- minusculeExtremely small in size
- diminutiveVery small, or nickname form
- pocket-sizedSmall enough to carry
- weeExtremely small
petite · elfin · pint-sized · bantam · compact · dainty · teensy · undersized
Not real, invented
- fantasyImaginative mental wandering
- islandWater-bounded land mass
- mythicalOf folklore, not fact
- inventedCreated something new
make-believe · storybook · whimsical · fantastical · utopia · unreal · legendary · imagined
Representation or paradigm
- societyOrganized communal human existence
- ecosystemInterconnected organisms and surroundings
- analogyExplanatory likeness between things
- symbolismRepresenting concepts through images
miniature world · representation · reflection · community · structure · system · scale · replica
Gulliver
- SwiftMoving with great speed
- BrobdingnagImaginary land of giants
- LemuelHebrew name meaning godly devotion
voyage · novel · satire · allegory · fable · parody · irony · mockery · caricature · social commentary
tiny
Extremely small in size
- minusculeExtremely small in size
- diminutiveVery small, or nickname form
- pocket-sizedSmall enough to carry
wee · petite · elfin · pint-sized · bantam · compact · dainty · teensy · undersized · shrunken
fictional
Not real, invented
invented · make-believe · storybook · whimsical · fantastical · utopia · unreal · legendary · imagined · adventure
model
Representation or paradigm
- societyOrganized communal human existence
- ecosystemInterconnected organisms and surroundings
- analogyExplanatory likeness between things
miniature world · symbolism · representation · reflection · community · structure · system · scale · replica · embodiment
- Swift WorksGulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, Brobdingnag, Yahoos
- Fictional IslandsAtlantis, Avalon, Neverland, Skull Island, Treasure Island
- Fictional PlacesGotham City, Hogwarts, Mordor, Narnia, Gondor
- imaginary worldsdreamland, fairyland, wonderland, fantasy realm, dream world
- Gulliver's TravelsGulliver, Swift, Brobdingnag, Lilliputians, Yahoos
- literary placesNarnia, Hogwarts, Middle-earth, Westeros, Mordor
LilliputBrobdingnag
Imaginary land of giants
Jotunheim · Brobdingnagian · colossal · gigantic · enormous
LilliputBrobdingnag
Imaginary land of giants
grandeur · colossus · magnanimity · empire · leviathan