Friday 9th of January 2009

The English
1: the people of England [syn:
{English}, {English people}]

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1: limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group"; "a small voice" [syn: small] [ant: large, large]

2: (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some; "little rain fell in May"; "gave it little thought"; "little hope remained"; "little time is left"; "we still have little money"; "a little hope remained"; "a little time is left" [syn: {little(a)}] [ant: {much(a)}]

3: of short duration or distance; "a brief stay in the country"; "in a little while"; "it's a little way away" [syn: brief]

4: not fully grown; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children" [syn: small]

5: (informal terms) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "Mickey Mouse regulations"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, Mickey Mouse, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial]

6: (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice" [syn: small]

7: younger brother or sister; "little brother" [syn: {little(a)}, younger] [ant: {big(a)}]

8: lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters" [syn: minuscule, small]

9: small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context); "a nice little job"; "bless your little heart"; "my dear little mother"; "a sweet little deal"; "I'm tired of your petty little schemes"; "filthy little tricks"; "what a nasty little situation" n : a small amount or duration; "he accepted the little they gave him" adv : not much; "he talked little about his family"

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