what does small mean?
SMALL as NOUN
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- a garment size for a small person
Hypernyms(s) small is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- the slender part of the back
Hypernyms(s) small is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
SMALL as ADJECTIVE
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- made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)
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- her comments made me feel small
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- limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
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- a little dining room
- a little house
- a small car
- a little (or small) group
- a small voice
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- a small business
- a newspaper with a modest circulation
- small-scale plans
- a pocket-size country
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- a little voice
- a still small voice
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- little a
- small a
- e.e.cummings’’s poetry is written all in minuscule letters
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- too small to be seen except under a microscope
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- not large but sufficient in size or amount
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- a modest salary
- modest inflation
- helped in my own small way
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- what a big little boy you are
- small children
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- have fine or very small constituent particles
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- low or inferior in station or quality
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- a humble cottage
- a lowly parish priest
- a modest man of the people
- small beginnings
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SMALL as ADVERB
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