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Definition: Little |
LittleAdjective1. 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". 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 isleft". 3. Of short duration or distance; "a brief stay in the country"; "in a little while"; "it's a little way away". 4. Not fully grown; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children". 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". 6. (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice". 7. Younger brother or sister; "little brother". 8. Lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters". 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". Adverb1. Not much; "he talked little about his family". Noun1. A small amount or duration; "he accepted the little they gave him". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "little" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Computing | LITTLE A typeless language used to produce machine-independent software. LITTLE has been used to implement SETL. "Guide to the LITTLE Language", D. Shields, LITTLE Newsletter 33, Courant Inst (Aug 1977). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Literature | Little Thomas Moore published a volume of amatory poems in 1808, under the name of Thomas Little. "When first I came my proper name was Little- Now I'm Moore. " Hood: The Wee Man. Little Little by little. Gradually; a little at a time. Many a little makes a mickle. The real Scotch proverb is: "A wheen o' mickles mak's a muckle," where mickle means little, ad muckle much; but the Anglo-Saxon micel or mycel means "much," so that, if the Scotch proverb is accepted, we must give a forced meaning to the word "mickle." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Multilingual Slang | Polish (dupcia). (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: Little sister. Definition: Girl in the house that has a unique friendship with another girl. Context: A word to describe a girl that is wathched over by another girl in the house. Social Source: Sigma Kappa Sorority. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Few, Little. These words and their comparatives, fewer, less, are often confounded. Few relates to number, or to what may be counted; little refers to quantity, or to what may be measured. A man may have few books and little money; he may have fewer friends and less influence than his neighbor. But do not say "The man has less friends than his neighbor." Source: Slips of Speech. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Little Belt or Small Belt (Danish:Lillebælt) is a strait between the Danish island of Funen and the Jutland Peninsula.
See also: Great Belt
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Little Belt."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| LINCOS | English | Little Intelligent Communities | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: LittleSynonyms: brief (adj), fiddling (adj), footling (adj), lilliputian (adj), little(a) (adj), minuscule (adj), niggling (adj), petty (adj), picayune (adj), piddling (adj), piffling (adj), small (adj), trivial (adj), younger (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: big(a) (adj), large (adj), much(a) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Improbity | Contemptible, unrespectable, abject, mean, shabby, little, paltry, dirty, scurvy, scabby, sneaking, groveling, scrubby, rascally, pettifogging; beneath one. |
Love | Loved; Verb: beloved well beloved, dearly beloved; dear, precious, darling, pet, little; favorite, popular. |
Shortness | Adjective: short, brief, curt; compendious, compact; stubby, scrimp; shorn, stubbed; stumpy, thickset, pug; chunky, decurtate; retrousse; stocky; squab, squabby; squat, dumpy; little; curtailed of its fair proportions; short by; oblate; concise; summary. |
Smallness | Adjective: small, little; diminutive; (small in size); minute; fine; inconsiderable, paltry; (unimportant); faint; (weak); slender, light, slight, scanty, scant, limited; meager; (insufficient); sparing; few; low, so-so, middling, tolerable, no great shakes; below par, under par, below the mark; at a low ebb; halfway; moderate, modest; tender, subtle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Little |
| English words defined with "little": a little ♦ Battle of Little Bighorn, Battle of the Little Bighorn ♦ Little Bighorn, little brother, little by little, Little Englander, Little ones. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "little": DOMINE DO LITTLE ♦ Great Cry and Little Wool ♦ LITTLE BARBARY, Little bit, LITTLE BREECHES, Little Britain, LITTLE CLERGYMAN, Little Corporal, Little Dauphin, LITTLE EASE, Little Englanders, Little Gentleman in Velvet, Little Jack Horner, Little Nell, Little Packs become a Little Pedlar, Little Paris, Little Pedlington, Little piece, Little Red Ridinghood, Little Smalltalk, LITTLE SNAKESMAN, little wiggler. (references) |
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Screenplays | So many people to kill so little time (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) What a sad little man you are. (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) Does this proposition entail my dressing up as Little Bo Peep (Fletch; writing credit: Andrew Bergman) I wanna tell you a little secret, being the one is just like being in love (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) Claudia, you have been a very, very naughty little girl (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) | |
Lyrics | Or is it too little too late (Too Little Too Late; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies) I Got a little problem that I can't mend, (A Little Bit; performing artist: Jessica Simpson) A little bit of Mary all night long (Mambo No. 5 (a little bit of ...); performing artist: Lou Bega) Wake up little Susie, we gotta go home ("Wake Up Little Susie"; performing artist: The Everly Brothers) Every little thing (Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic; performing artist: The Police) | |
Clever | Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. (references; author: Mark Twain) A peacock has too little in its head and too much in its tail. (references; author: Swedish Proverb) To belittle is to be little. (references; author: unknown) So Many Pedestrians - So Little Time. (references; author: unknown) Better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | Eleven elves licked eleven little licorice lollipops. (references; author: unknown) Lily ladles little Letty's lentil soup. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Stuart Little (2003) Little Malcolm (1974) The Little Prince (1974) Little House on the Prairie (1974) The Little Boy and the Dog (1974) | |
Song Titles | Little Darlin' (performing artist: The Diamonds) Little Lies (performing artist: Fleetwood Mac) This Little Girl (performing artist: Gary "U.S." Bonds) Little Children (performing artist: Giles & Fripp Giles) Ooh Aah…Just A Little Bit (performing artist: Gina G) | |
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The patient is a 53 year old woman with metastatic melanoma to multiple subcutaneous sites and retroperitoneum. She was treated with tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) transduced with the gene for tumor necrosis factor (TNF). Pretreatment biopsy shows multiple live melanoma cells with little lymphoid infiltrate. Following treatment with TNF gene modified TILs plus interleukin-2, a biopsy of another lesion showed massive coagulative necrosis of the tumor with no viable tumor seen. This is a typical picture seen in experimental animals treated with tumor necrosis factor. This patient has had a substantial objective response that is currently ongoing at nine months following initiation of treatment. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | Members of the first National Advisory Cancer Council at the groundbreaking ceremonies at the NCI's building 6 in June, 1938. (Left to right) Francis Wood, C.C Little, James Ewing, Arthur Compton, James Conant, Thomas Parran, and Ludwig Hektoen. This new building, erected on land donated by Mrs. Luke J. Wilson was the fourth to be constructed in the complex that is now the National Institutes of Health. The structure was unique in that year of 1939, with its physical equipment and facilities designed solely for scientific research in a specialized field of science. Building 6 was to house the National Cancer Institute, the first of the nine specialized institutes that would comprise NIH. See also ar003810. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | ||
In remote areas with little human habitation, the most appropriate action may be to post signs on the roads entering the epizootic area to warn people, and provide information on personal protection and plague prevention. Credit: CDC. | ![]() | Plasmodium species, mature schizont. Little cytoplasm is visible around the chromated masses of merozoites. Also there is a growing trophozoite and three presegmenters as well as one white blood cell. Malaria parasite. Credit: CDC. | |
![]() | Little Joe 5B High-Q-Abort Test. Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Sam the Monkey After His Ride in the Little Joe 2 Spacecraft. Credit: NASA. |
The phrase "big fish eat little fish" may hold true when it comes to planets and stars. ... Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Aaahhhh! Isn't that the cutest little bundle of fur! John Burns of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game holding a ribbon seal pup - Phoca fasciata. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). | |
![]() | A little mud never hurt anyone SURVEYOR personnel at Kalgin Island. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Lieutenant Cindy McFee visits with penguins at Little America Lt. McFee was on the way to South Pole Station She was the third woman to winter over. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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| "Little prince of Fall" by Corinne Vooys Commentary: "Autumn adventures." | "Up a little nose" by Keely Singer Commentary: "What a ham. I could take this girl's picture all day." |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
| Little brass bell ringing. | A yipping and yapping little dog. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Aesop | Little by little does the trick. |
Benjamin Disraeli | Little things affect little minds. |
Benjamin Franklin | Little strokes fell great oaks. |
Cecil Rhodes | So little done, so much to do. |
Christopher Marlowe | Infinite riches in a little room. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | The little man is still a man. |
Leona Helmsley | Only little people pay taxes. |
Rupert Brooke | All the little emptiness of love! |
Seneca | For greed all nature is too little. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Secondly, I answer, such revolutions happen not upon every little mismanagement in public affairs. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Modern industry has converted the little workshop of the patriarchal master into the great factory of the industrial capitalist. (reference) |
Abraham Lincoln | 1863 | The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. (The Gettysburg Address) |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | As a consequence, it is not surprising that there should be so little in the history of the Fourteenth Amendment relating to its intended effect on public education. (reference) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961 | United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. (reference) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1905) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | She speaks a little too quick |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | I returned the book, looking, I suppose, a little blank, as the lady laughed merrily at my discomfiture |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | A very little more is all permitted to me. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Little Pearl, of course, was her companion |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She put on a little round cap which concealed her shorn head, and with that she was still pretty |
Absalom and Achitophel | John Dryden | Who think too little, and who talk too much |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He had learnt what little he knew of the laws of Latin verse from a ragged book written by a Portuguese priest |
Time Enough for Love | Robert Heinlein | Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Nay, I prithee, stay a little. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Like a little baby |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Chooses things by size (big, little). (references) | |
The child may produce little urine as a result. (references) | ||
Surrounding areas suffer relatively little trauma. (references) | ||
Business | American Lingerie is little known in Poland. (references) | |
American footwear is little known in Poland. (references) | ||
The origin of goods is of little consideration. (references) | ||
Children | Sierra Leone | A large number of children receive little or no formal education. (references) |
Niger | Regulations do not mandate accessibility to public transport, of which there is little. (references) | |
Vanuatu | Child abuse is not extensive; however, the Government has done little to combat the problem. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Bangladesh | Opposition party news gets little coverage. (references) |
Armenia | Border officials have little training on asylum issues. (references) | |
Hong Kong | These criticisms had little or no effect on activities in Hong Kong. (references) | |
Discrimination | Yugoslavia | While Federal and Republic-level laws provide for equal rights for all citizens, regardless of ethnic group, religion, language, or social status, and prohibit discrimination against women; however, in practice the legal system provides little protection for such groups. (references) |
Economic History | Hungary | Leasing has little tradition in Hungary. (references) |
Ukraine | Little changed for Ukraine over the next decades. (references) | |
Human Rights | Kenya | There is little access to health care and medicine. (references) |
Sri Lanka | Security forces have done little to stop this practice. (references) | |
Vietnam | Young educated judges have little influence within the system. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Congo | They usually are considered socially inferior and had little political voice. (references) |
Paraguay | Scarce resources and limited government attention resulted in little progress in dealing with these problems. (references) | |
Malaysia | The result was that many indigenous people were deprived of their traditional lands with little or no legal recourse. (references) | |
Minorities | Liberia | Little reliable information is readily available about traditions associated with ritual killings. (references) |
Afghanistan | The Taliban was Pashtun-dominated and showed little tolerance for accommodation with ethnic minorities. (references) | |
Bulgaria | Employers justify such discrimination on the basis that most Roma only have elementary training and little education. (references) | |
Political Economy | Eq. Guinea | The opposition has little say in Parliament. (references) |
Brazil | It plays little role in routine law enforcement. (references) | |
Vietnam | People's Councils, in contrast, have very little real authority. (references) | |
Political Rights | Azerbaijan | The Parliament exercises little legislative initiative independent of the executive. (references) |
Nepal | Maoist efforts to disrupt the elections by intimidating voters and candidates had little effect. (references) | |
Pakistan | With separate electorates, representatives have little incentive to promote their minority constituents' interests. (references) | |
Trade | Nigeria | Observers note little success to date in reducing red tape and corruption. (references) |
Azerbaijan | Personal items, tools of trade, and business samples may be imported with little problem. (references) | |
Burma | The list is published in trade bulletins and publications, but changes with little notice. (references) | |
Travel | Kazakhstan | Note: visa fees change often and with little notice. (references) |
Jamaica | Jamaicans are a little more formal than North Americans. (references) | |
Nepal | These strikes usually result in little or no damage to private property. (references) | |
Women | Yemen | Most women have little access to basic health care. (references) |
Algeria | Labor Ministry inspectors do little to enforce the law. (references) | |
Iran | The Siqeh marriage may last for a night or as little as 30 minutes. (references) | |
Worker Rights | China | They have little say in the choice of mediators. (references) |
Algeria | The strike was publicized poorly and had little effect. (references) | |
Costa Rica | Little evidence exists that employers coerce employees to perform such overtime. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. Should you ask me whence this laughter, Whence this audible big-smiling, With its labial extension, With its maxillar distortion And its diaphragmic rhythmus Like the billowing of an ocean, Like the shaking of a carpet, I should answer, I should tell you: From the great deeps of the spirit, From the unplummeted abysmus Of the soul this laughter welleth As the fountain, the gug-guggle, Like the river from the canon [sic], To entoken and give warning That my present mood is sunny. Should you ask me further question -- Why the great deeps of the spirit, Why the unplummeted abysmus Of the soule extrudes this laughter, This all audible big-smiling, I should answer, I should tell you With a white heart, tumpitumpy, With a true tongue, honest Injun: William Bryan, he has Caught It, Caught the Whangdepootenawah! Is't the sandhill crane, the shankank, Standing in the marsh, the kneedeep, Standing silent in the kneedeep With his wing-tips crossed behind him And his neck close-reefed before him, With his bill, his william, buried In the down upon his bosom, With his head retracted inly, While his shoulders overlook it? Does the sandhill crane, the shankank, Shiver grayly in the north wind, Wishing he had died when little, As the sparrow, the chipchip, does? No 'tis not the Shankank standing, Standing in the gray and dismal Marsh, the gray and dismal kneedeep. No, 'tis peerless William Bryan Realizing that he's Caught It, Caught the Whangdepootenawah! |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Alexander Benedetto | William is lying there sleeping in the guest house there. We go back in. We sit down, watch a little TV, unwind a little bit, go to sleep. |
Cast of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" | Well then you're in for a little surprise, because if you push me, then I just might have to push back. Hard. |
Dennis Miller | But unfortunately, as our system stands, the one who always ends up shafted is the little guy, not the billionaire CEO. |
Gene Wilder | Yes! And I'm that little boy you used to bathe and tuck into bed and bring warm milk and cookies too, just before you kissed me good night. |
Jack Lemmon | Oh, I would have loved to have known him. Oh, I can only hope that when my time comes in whatever way that I can be a little like him. |
Joan Lunden | I am a little nuts, but that's OK. I have a very physical life. And we did try for a number of years through the in vitro process. |
Judy Sheindlin | A young judge doesn't get the experience, and doesn't have a life's history, I think, that you get when you're a little bit longer in the tooth. |
Rush Limbaugh | Do not allow this little blip in our market to turn you against capitalism. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | By the frame of the Government under which we live this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals. |
Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | Its intricate and involved rules of procedure have become the refuge of both big and little criminals. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Last year, with very little fanfare the Congress and the executive branch moved in that field. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Life will be a little better here for my children than for me. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | I know that he must have died inside a little each time. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | When I held the little guy fo the first time, the troubles at home and abroad seemed manageable, and totally in perspective. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Now he's got a good job and he supports his little boy. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy, or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, it could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Little" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 56.62% of the time. "Little" is used about 43,350 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 56.62% | 24,546 | 348 |
| Determiner (general) | 22.01% | 9,543 | 998 |
| Adverb (general) | 17.34% | 7,517 | 1,283 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.02% | 1,744 | 4,824 |
| Total | 100.00% | 43,350 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "little" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Little | Last name | 46,000 | 226 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "little". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Paula | N/A | Ancient Roman | Little |
| Boghos | N/A | Armenian | Little |
| Chephirah | N/A | Biblical | A little lioness |
| Damaris | N/A | Biblical | A little woman |
| Hakkatan | N/A | Biblical | Little |
| Jaala | N/A | Biblical | A little doe or goat |
| Mesobaite | N/A | Biblical | A little doe |
| Mikloth | N/A | Biblical | Little wants |
| Mikloth | N/A | Biblical | Little voices |
| Mizar | N/A | Biblical | Little |
| Paul | N/A | Biblical | Little |
| Tikvah | N/A | Biblical | A little line |
| Zair | N/A | Biblical | Little |
| Zoar | N/A | Biblical | Little |
| Pavel | N/A | Bulgarian | Little |
| Pau | N/A | Catalan | Little |
| Havel | N/A | Czech | Little |
| Pavel | N/A | Czech | Little |
| Poul | N/A | Danish | Little |
| Paula | N/A | English | Little |
| Pauletta | N/A | English | Little |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| China | Wuxi Little Swan Co Limited | United Kingdom | Osborne & Little Plc |
| USA | Little Switzerland, Inc. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Little, KY |
Expressions using "little": a little ♦ a little bird told me ♦ a little bit ♦ a little bit of ♦ a little more ♦ a little of ♦ a little slam ♦ a little too small ♦ a little while ♦ a little while ago ♦ a modest little cottage ♦ after a little ♦ as little as ♦ battle of Little Bighorn ♦ battle of the Little Bighorn ♦ be a little late ♦ be of little avail ♦ be of little moment ♦ By little and little ♦ chat a little ♦ chicken Little ♦ close a little ♦ come to little ♦ count for little ♦ delay a little ♦ do a little job ♦ even a little ♦ have a little patience ♦ he has his little peculiarities ♦ her little ones ♦ however little ♦ in a little while ♦ it makes little difference ♦ it matters little ♦ it recks little ♦ just a little ♦ little as ♦ little auk ♦ little baby ♦ little bar ♦ little bare monkey ♦ little barley ♦ little bear ♦ little Bighorn ♦ little Bighorn River ♦ little bit ♦ little black ant ♦ little blighter ♦ little blue heron ♦ little bluebill ♦ little boat ♦ little box ♦ little boy ♦ little brother ♦ little brown bat ♦ little brown myotis ♦ little brush ♦ little bustard ♦ little by little ♦ Little Canada ♦ little cash ♦ Little cassino ♦ Little Cedar ♦ Little chief ♦ little chief hare ♦ Little Chute ♦ little club moss ♦ little clubmoss ♦ Little Compton ♦ Little Cottonwood Creek Valley ♦ little creature ♦ Little Creek ♦ little cross ♦ little curly poll ♦ little darling ♦ Little Deer Isle ♦ little demon ♦ little devil ♦ little dictionary ♦ Little Dipper ♦ little Dog ♦ little dot ♦ Little Eagle ♦ little ebony spleenwort ♦ little egg ♦ little egret ♦ Little Elm ♦ little end ♦ Little Englander ♦ Little Englandism ♦ Little Falls ♦ little falls ny ♦ little fellow ♦ Little Ferry ♦ little finger ♦ Little Flock ♦ little flower ♦ little folks ♦ little fool ♦ Little Genesee ♦ little girl. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "little": little-aired, little-altered, little-and-large, little-associations, little-bit-of, little-bit-of-bread-and-no-cheeeeese, little-black, little-boy, little-boy-lost, little-changed, little-crested, little-developed, Little-ease, little-educated, little-endian, Little-englandism, little-explored, little-extra, little-frequented, little-girl, little-girl-lost, little-head snakeweed, little-heard-of, little-heralded, little-known, little-knowns, little-leaf fig, little-league team, little-light, little-loved, little-magazine, little-miss-never-forgets, Little-neck clam, little-noted, little-noticed, little-old-lady, little-or, little-practised, little-publicised, little-publicized, little-remembered, little-researched, little-shown, little-studied, little-taught, little-tested, little-tried, little-un, little-'un, little-understood, little-uns, little-used, little-visited. | |
Ending with "little": a-little, be-little, brooke-little, brook-little, Do-little, not-so-little, right-little, step-little, the-little, tight-little, tiny-little. | |
Containing "little": cheery-little-girl, poor-little-baby, pretty-little-feather-brained-only-good-for-one-thing-bimbo-know-nothing-woman's-head, rich-little-poor-girl, silly-little-me-late-again-ish, too-little-seen, you-and-me-having-a-little-joke-together. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
little rock ar | 2,948 | little things | 596 |
little girl | 2,644 | little boy | 588 |
little tikes | 2,497 | little nickel | 584 |
little mermaid | 2,141 | fighter little | 564 |
little tikes toy | 1,832 | little pussy | 543 |
little league | 1,691 | little house on the prairie | 537 |
little league baseball | 1,234 | little rock arkansas | 534 |
little | 1,234 | stuart little | 464 |
my little pony | 1,222 | caesar little pizza | 438 |
little rock | 1,102 | little people | 436 |
little tykes | 915 | little caesars | 429 |
little rascal | 910 | little bear | 411 |
the little prince | 870 | daddys little girl | 382 |
little virgin | 728 | little feat | 378 |
little caesar | 711 | little palm island | 377 |
tony little | 702 | little giant | 373 |
little angel | 689 | angela little | 373 |
2 fighter little | 653 | tony little gazelle | 360 |
little tit | 630 | little kim | 358 |
little taylor | 616 | three little pig | 354 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "little"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | min, klein (diminutive, small). (various references) | |
Albanian | vogël (small), shpirtvogël (small minded, turnback), pothuaj aspak, paksa (faintly, lightly, vaguely), pak (briefly, dab, few, just, just a little, narrowly, rather, slightly, some, somewhat, to some extent), një çikë (bit, crumb, dab, pinch, soupcon), mendjengushtë (hidebound, illiberal, insular, low-minded, narrow minded, parochial, petty), i vogël (baby, diminutive, exiguous, Ling, one horse, paltry, peripheral, petit, petty, pimping, pocket-size, poky, reckling, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, small, trivial, undersized), i vocërr (petty, puny, tiny, wee), i shkurtër (brief, curt, fleeting, momentary, near, recapitulatory, scrubby, short, stubby, terse, transitory), i pakët (exiguous, few, lean, limited, low, marginal, meager, meagre, measly, modest, narrow, picayune, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, skimpy, slender, small, spare, sparing, thin, wee). (various references) | |
Arabic | فترة قصيرة (awhile, piece), متواضع (humble, inconsiderable, insignificant, modest, negligible, slight, small, trivial, unassuming, unpretentious), مسافة قصيرة, نادرا (rarely, scarcely, seldom), قليل (few, scarce, slight, small), غيض (slight), تافه (banal, commonplace, contemptible, crummy, fade, fiddling, flat, foolish, footling, fractional, frivolous, frothy, good for nothing, inane, inconsiderable, insignificant, junk, light, lilliputian, lowbrow, measly, minute, naught, negligible, niggling, nonsensical, nugatory, null, paltry, pedestrian, petty, piddling, pimping, piteous, pitiable, platitudinous, pointless, puny, ridiculous, run of the mill, silly, slight, slim, small time, smelly, stupid, trifle, trifling, trite, trivial, trumpery, two a penny, two bit, twopenny-halfpenny, unimportant, unsavory, unsavoury, unworthy, vain, valueless, vapid, vile, worthless), ضعيف (atonic, cold, crazy, deficient, delicate, dim, emaciated, enervate, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flagging, fragile, frail, haggard, helpless, impotent, inaudible, infirm, invertebrate, lame, languid, languorous, lank, lean, limp, low, lower, nerveless, pale, powered, powerless, puny, rickety, run down, scant, scrawny, slender, slight, slim, small, soft, softy, streaked, supine, tenuous, thin, thready, toothless, unsubstantial, wan, weak, weakened, weakling, weakly, wimp, wishy washy), ضئيل (bantam, exiguous, fractional, imperceptible, insignificant, lowbrow, meager, meagre, nominal, piddling, puny, sketchy, slender, sparse, stingy, thin, wretched), صغير (baby, diminutive, infinitesimal, lower case, minuscule, minute, niggling, petty, remote, short, small, teeny, tiny, tiny bit, wee, young), القليل (modicum, small), الصغير (small, whipper-snapper, youngling), الشيء الصغير (dwarf), بسيطة (earth, world), بعض (any, few, several, some, somewhat). (various references) | |
Basque | tiki, pixka. (various references) | |
Breton | tammig (little bit). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съвсем малко, къс (brief, cob, fraction, fragment, fritter, jimp, length, morsel, patch, piece, portion, scrimpy, short, skimpy, slip, slipping), кратък (brief, compact, concise, curt, horary, near, short, swift, transient, transitory), незначителен (cheap, dinky, fiddling, fractional, frivolous, immaterial, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, inessential, inglorious, insignificant, least, mean, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nominal, noteless, nugatory, obscure, one horse, outside, paltry, peddling, pettifogging, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, pimping, pokey, poky, poor, potty, puerile, pygmy, rabbity, scrubby, slight, small, small time, subfusc, tenuous, third class, tiddly, trifling, trivial, two-by-four, twopenny-halfpenny, unconsidered, unimportant), никак (no, nohow, none, not by a long sight, nothing), малък (bijou, light, measurable, paltry, piccolo, pocket, remote, slight, slim, small, tiddly, toy, venial, young), малко (any, awhile, bit, few, remotely, several, slightly, some, somewhat, sort of), почти никак, дребнав (finical, finicking, finicky, fussy, hairsplitting, mean, mouldy, niggling, niminy-piminy, pernickety, pettifogging, petty, small, small minded, trivial), дребен (dinky, dwarf, finical, finicking, finicky, insignificant, minor, niggling, paltry, peddling, petty, picayune, piddling, pimping, pokey, poky, poor, potty, puerile, puny, pygmy, rabbity, sawed-off, shabby, short, small, small time, small-scale, trifling, trivial, undersized, unimportant, venial). (various references) | |
Catalan | poc (rather, some, somewhat, to some extent). (various references) | |
Chinese | 微小 (small), 少许, 少 (few, lack, young). (various references) | |
Czech | malý (faint, minor, pokey, remote, scant, short, slender, small, stingy, tight, tiny, young). (various references) | |
Danish | lille (diminutive, small). (various references) | |
Dutch | klein (diminutive, short, slight, small, tiny), min (affection, diminutive, fewer, less, love, minus, small), luttel (diminutive, small), karig (diminutive, in short supply, scanty, scarce, small), gering (diminutive, small). (various references) | |
Esperanto | malmulte da, malmulta, malgranda (diminutive, small). (various references) | |
Estonian | vähe. (various references) | |
Faeroese | lítil (small). (various references) | |
Farsi | کوتاه (Concise, Dumpy, Laconic, Low, Miniature, Punch, Short, Stocky, Stunt, Succinct, Transient), درخوربچگی , اندک (Lean, Light, Low, Margin, Modicum, Paucity, Pinch, Scant, Scantling, Scarce, Scrimp, Scruple, Skimpy, Slight, Whit), جزءی (Immaterial, Imperceptible, Inappreciative, Inconsiderable, Inconspicuous, Minuscule, Minute, Negligible, Nip, Nominal, Paltry, Partial, Peppercorn, Petty, Piddling, Remote, Retail, Rush, Small, Snatch, Trivial, Vain), خرد (Inconsiderable, Intellect, Minuscule, Part, Petty, Reason, Retail, Tiny, Wisdom), خورده , بچگانه (Childlike, Chilish, Infantile, Puerile), قدکوتاه (Dwarf, Puny, Pygmy), پست (Abacinate, Abject, Cheap, Common, Currish, Despicable, Earthborn, Humble, Infamous, Inferior, Lily, Mail, Menial, Peevish, Poor, Runty, Ungenerous, Venal, Vile, Villain, Villainous, Vulgar, Wretch, Wretched), کوچک (Bantam, Dinky, Miniature, Minuscule, Minute, Petty, Pocket, Puny, Runty, Short, Small, Teeny, Thumbnail, Weeny), کم (Infrequent, Junior, Light, Low, Marginal, Rare, Remote, Scant, Scanty, Scarce, Scrimpy, Skimp, Slender, Slight, Small), ناچیز (Inconsequential, Inconsiderable, Meager, Negligible, Nugatory, Pelting, Peppercorn, Piddling, Poor, Runty, Scrimp, Straw, Teeny, Trifle, Trivial, Vain), مختصر (Compendium, Concise, Epitome, Short, Succinct, Sum, Summary, Synopsis, Terse), معدود (Paucity, Poor, Scant), محقر (Humble, Small, Unpretentious), حقیر (Runty, Slight). (various references) | |
Finnish | vähän (a bit, a little, a trifle, few, some). (various references) | |
Flemish | beetje. (various references) | |
French | petit, peu (a littlebit, little bit), peu de. (various references) | |
French Canadian | peu. (various references) | |
Frisian | lyts (small). (various references) | |
Galician | pouco (bit). (various references) | |
German | wenig (a little, few, less, little (less, not much, poco, scant, small, sparse), klein (diminutive, dinky, humble, lesser, little (less, low, lower, lower case, lowly, mini, miniature, modest, ordinary, petty, puny, quick, runty, short, slight, small, small-sized, thin), gering (humble, insubstantial, low, minor, modest, poor, scant, short, slender, slight, slim, small). (various references) | |
Greek | λίγο (a dash of, a touch of, slightly). (various references) | |
Guarani | rokemíta (we shall sleep a little bit), roipotami (we want a little bit), roguatami (we walk a little bit), michimínte (only a little bit), mboyvemi (a little bit before), mbeguemive (a little bit more slowly), jahami (we shall go a little bit), amba'apomi (I work a little bit), añe'êkuaa (I speak only a little bit), ñasêmína (let's leave a little bit). (various references) | |
Haitian Creole | ti (small), piti. (various references) | |
Hawaiian | vogël (small). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מועט (exiguous, few, scanty, skimpy, small, triffle), מעט (few, less, mite, slightly, some, sprinkling), קטן (minor, petite, small, small boy), קט (small, tiny), קצת (a few, slightly, some, somewhat, trifle). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kis (baby elephant, bonny, breaker, brownie, combo, drab, dribblet, driblet, ducky, jumper, low, petit, pipsqueak, pygmy, ringlet, shakeout, small, tattler), kicsi (dinky, little one, low, minor, mite, petite, pint-sized, potty, puny, pygmy, scrimp, skimpy, slight, small, tiny, vest pocket). (various references) | |
Icelandic | litla, lítill (small), smár (small). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sedikit (bit, breath, dash, dribblet, exiguous), kecil (miniature, minute, small, tiny), dikit (small). (various references) | |
Irish | beag (diminutive, small). (various references) | |
Italian | piccolo (brief, child, cub, diminutive, little one, low, mean, petty, short, skimpy, slight, small, tiny, trifling, young). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 少し (few, little while, short distance, small quantity, something). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すこし (few, little while, short distance, small quantity, something), リトル , きんしょう (few, gold general, insignificant, proximity), さしょう (false statement, few, misrepresentation, slight, trifling, visa), かしょう (approval, burn, Chinese merchants abroad, few, praise, receptacle, riverbed, scald, scanty, singing, song, temporary name, too few, too small, undeserved praise), けいび (defense, guard, insignificant, policing, security, slight), ちっちゃい (tiny, wee), ちいさい (small, tiny), ちいさ (small, tiny). (various references) | |
Korean | 조금 (bit, bits). (various references) | |
Lombard | a pòcch a pòcch (gradually, little by little). (various references) | |
Luganda | lutono. (various references) | |
Luxembourgish | bësse. (various references) | |
Malay | kecil (small). (various references) | |
Manx | myn- (diminutive, elaborate, exhaustive, filings, lesser, minute, niggling, petty, prefix diminutive, trifling), loo (fewer, least; affidavit, littler, oath, swear, swearing), kuse veg (few), cooid y veggan, beggan (a few, faintly, partly, slightly, small piece, somewhat). (various references) | |
Maya | thuup (little finger). (various references) | |
Norwegian | litt. (various references) | |
Occitan | pichon. (various references) | |
Papiamen | chikitu (small), chikito (small), chikí (small). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ittlelay.(various references) | |
Polish | mały (small). (various references) | |
Portuguese | pouco (little quantity, wispy), pequeno (bantam, diminutive, dinky, dwarfish, hidebound, kiddy, low, minor, one-horse, petty, poky, pony, potty, puny, pygmean, short, slender, small, smalltime, sonny, tiny). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | pouco. (various references) | |
Quechua | tumpallataraq (only a little so far), tumpa (a little). (various references) | |
Romanian | mic (Chitty, chopping, contemptible, dwarfish, exiguous, low, mincing, minor, narrow, petty, pimping, poky, pony, poor, puny, scrubby, shallow, shoe string, short, slender, slight, small, undersized, weak, wee, young). (various references) | |
Russian | уменьшенный (diminished, pony-size, reduced, underpriced), короткое время, короткий (brief, short, small, stubbly), кое-что (aught), немногое, немного небольшой, незначительный (exiguous, imperceptible, importless, inconsiderable, insignificant, light, minor, minute, negligible, nonsignificant, of no account, of small account, outside, paltry, poky, puny, pygmy, remote, slight, small time, small-time, tenuous, trivial), мелочный (hairsplitting, meticulous, mingy, niggling, peddling, penny-wise, petty, picayune, small minded, small-minded), малый (bloke, chap, cove, exiguous, fellow, guy, Johnny, lesser, petit), мало, маленький (diminutive, elvish, petite, pimping, pint-sized, pony, puisne, puny, small, thumb-nail). (various references) | |
Scottish | beag (all but, little : ach beag, small). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sićušan (lilliputian, measly, midget, minute, pimping, tiny, weeny), neznatan (inconsiderable, insignificant, negligible, twopenny-halfpenny, unsubstantial), malo (few, kind of, little: a little, slightly, small, some, somewhat), mali (lorikeet, low, money spinner, small), malen (small), mala količina (dab, dash, lick, modicum, sprinkling, tittle, trace). (various references) | |
Slovene | delno. (various references) | |
Somali | yar (a little), xoogaa (a little). (various references) | |
Sotho | hanyane (a little bit). (various references) | |
Spanish | poco (a fat lot, a little, bit, extreme, lesser, little bit, rather, shallow, short, some, somewhat, thin, to some extend, to some extent), pequeño (baby, child, diminutive, dwarf, dwarfish, Juniper, low, lower, minute, narrow, petty, short, skimpy, slight, small, undersized), chico (bairn, boy, chap, child, fellow, infant, junior, kid, lad, laddie, Matey, small). (various references) | |
Sranan | pikin (bairn, child, infant, small). (various references) | |
Swahili | -dogo (small), dogo (diminutive, small). (various references) | |
Swedish | liten (off, one horse, petty, short, slight, slim, small, tiddley, tiddly, tiny, young), litet (a few, a little, rather, small, some), ringa (call, chime, clang, dial, exiguous, humble, insubstantial, low, lowly, modest, peal, petty, ring, scant, scanty, slight, small, telephone, toll, trifling), lilla (small), föga (hardly, not exactly). (various references) | |
Tagalog | maliít (small). (various references) | |
Tahitian | ma'a. (various references) | |
Tswana | senyenyane (little bit), nyenyane (little bit). (various references) | |
Turkish | az (a bit, contracted, few, hypo-, inconsiderable, insufficient, meager, meagre, poco, poor, scrimp, scrimpy, seldom, shoestring, short, skimp, skimpy, slender, slim, small, spare, stingy, under). (various references) | |
Turkmen | uюak (fine, small), ownuk, az (few). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | невелика кількість (a bit, handful, mouthful, scantling, smack, trifle), невеликий (bantam, moderate, petty, young), незначний (bare, exiguous, imponderable, inconsiderable, inessential, insignificant, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nugacious, off, one horse, outside, petty, poor, potty, puny, pygmy, slender, slight, small, trivial), небагато (a few, few, only a few, some few, somewhat), маленький (baby, minikin, pony, young), зовсім не (no, none), дрібний (bantam, fractional, hair splitting, minute, negligible, niggling, picayune, piddling, potty, sectarian, small, small minded, tin-pot). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | một quâng ngắn với quy mô nhỏ dần dần, một chút không một chút nào, một ít một thời gian ngắn, không nhiều một chút, chẳng bao nhiêu, ít (dash, scant, scanty, shoestring, sip). (various references) | |
Welsh | ychydig (few, rather, some, somewhat), bychan (diminutive, small), bach (bend, corner, diminutive, hinge, hook, nook, small). (various references) | |
Wolof | tuuti (a little). (various references) | |
Xhosa | kancinci (A little bit, Very soft/a little bit). (various references) | |
Yucatec | chichan (small), chan (small). (various references) | |
Zulu | -ncane (small). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | oligos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aliquantulus, arvinam, arvinulis, Athene noctua, breve, brevem, breves, brevi, brevis, casula, casulam, casulis, catelli, catenulas, dextraliola, Euthynnus alletteratus, Euthynnus quadripunctatus, Glycymeris glycymeris, Larus minutus, libello, libellum, loculo, loculos, loculum, mansiunculas, minima, minimae, minime, minimis, minimo, minimum, minimus, minor, minora, minore, minorem, minores, minori, minoribus, minoris, minus, modica, modice, modici, modicis, modico, modicum, modicumque, modicus, mulierculas, parui, parum minus minime, parva, parvae, parvam, parvas, parvi, parvis, parvo, parvos, parvum, parvus, parvus minor minimus, pauca, paucae, paucas, pauci, pauciores, paucioribus, paucis, paucissimo, paucissimos, paucorum, paucos, paule, pauli, paulo, paululum, paulum, paulus, pauxillum, Pectunculus glycymeris, pharue, pinnacula, pinnaculis, pinnaculum, Plautus alle, Plotus alle, pusillis, quantulum, quantumcumque, Raja erinacea, RM:muetta pitschna, RM:pestgarel pitschen, RM:tschuetta da la mort, Sterna albifrons, Thynnus thonina, Thynnus thunina, Thynnus thunnina, tripoli. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | fea, hwon, lyt, lytel. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 17, Verse 20 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | O de ihsouV eipen autoiV dia thn apistian umwn amhn gar legw umin ean echte pistin wV kokkon sinapewV ereite tw orei toutw metabhqi enteuqen ekei kai metabhsetai kai ouden adunathsei umin |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Hoc autem genus non eicitur nisi per orationem et ieiunium |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ða cwæð he for heora ungeleaffulnysse. Soðlice on eornest ic eow segge. gyfge hafden ge-leafan swa mycel swa senepescorn. & ge cwæðen to þissen munte. farheonen. þanne ferde he. & eow ne byeð anyg þing un-myhtig-lic. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | But this kynde is not caste out, but bi preiyng and fastyng. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Iesus sayd vnto the: Because of youre vnbelefe For I saye veryly vnto you: yf ye had faythe as a grayne of musterd seed ye shuld saye vnto this moutayne remove hence to yonder place and he shuld remove: nether shuld eny thinge be vnpossible for you to do. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Jesus said to them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say to you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard-seed, ye shall say to this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he says to them, Because of your little faith: for truly I say to you, If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, Be moved from this place to that; and it will be moved; and nothing will be impossible to you. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Matthew Chapter 17, Verse 20 |
| Cebuano | Kanila mitubag siya nga nag-ingon, "Tungod sa kadiyutay sa inyong pagtoo. Kay sa pagkatinuod, magaingon ako kaninyo, nga kon may pagtoo kamo nga ingon ug liso sa mustasa, makaingon kamo niining bukid, `Bumalhin ka gikan dinhi ngadto didto,` ug kini mobalhin; ug walay magamakuli alang kaninyo. |
| Croatian | Kaže im: "Zbog vaše malovjernosti. Zaista, kažem vam, ako imadnete vjere koliko je zrno gorušièino te reknete ovoj gori: 'Premjesti se odavde onamo!', premjestit æe se i ništa vam neæe biti nemoguæe." |
| Danish | Og han siger til dem: "For eders Vantros Skyld; thi sandelig, siger jeg eder, dersom I have Tro som et Sennepskorn, da kunne I sige til dette Bjerg: Flyt dig herfra derhen, så skal det flytte sig, og intet skal være eder umuligt. |
| Dutch | En Jezus zeide tot hen: Om uws ongeloofs wil; want voorwaar zeg Ik u: Zo gij een geloof hadt als een mosterdzaad, gij zoudt tot dezen berg zeggen: Ga heen van hier derwaarts, en hij zal heengaan; en niets zal u onmogelijk zijn. |
| Finnish | Niin hän sanoi heille: "Teidän epäuskonne tähden; sillä totisesti minä sanon teille: jos teillä olisi uskoa sinapinsiemenenkään verran, niin te voisitte sanoa tälle vuorelle: `Siirry täältä tuonne`, ja se siirtyisi, eikä mikään olisi teille mahdotonta". |
| French | C`est à cause de votre incrédulité, leur dit Jésus. Je vous le dis en vérité, si vous aviez de la foi comme un grain de sénevé, vous diriez à cette montagne: Transporte-toi d`ici là, et elle se transporterait; rien ne vous serait impossible. |
| German | Jesus aber antwortete und sprach zu ihnen: Um eures Unglaubens willen. Denn wahrlich ich sage euch: So ihr Glauben habt wie ein Senfkorn, so mögt ihr sagen zu diesem Berge: Hebe dich von hinnen dorthin! so wird er sich heben; und euch wird nichts unmöglich sein. |
| Hungarian | Jézus pedig monda nékik: A ti hitetlenségetek miatt. Mert bizony mondom néktek: Ha akkora hitetek volna, mint a mustármag, azt mondanátok ennek a hegynek: Menj innen amoda, és elmenne; és semmi sem volna lehetetlen néktek. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Yesus menjawab, "Sebab kalian kurang percaya. Ingatlah! Kalau kalian mempunyai iman sebesar biji sawi, kalian dapat berkata kepada bukit ini, 'Pindahlah ke sana!' pasti bukit ini akan pindah. Tidak ada sesuatu pun yang tidak dapat kalian buat! |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka kata Yesus kepada mereka itu, "Oleh sebab kurang imanmu, karena dengan sesungguhnya Aku berkata kepadamu: Jikalau kamu menaruh iman sebesar biji sesawi, maka kamu berani mengatakan pada gunung ini: Pindahlah engkau dari sini ke sana, niscaya berpindahlah ia kelak; bahkan, tiada barang sesuatu pun yang mustahil padamu. |
| Italian | Ed egli rispose: «Per la vostra poca fede. In verità vi dico: se avrete fede pari a un granellino di senapa, potrete dire a questo monte: spostati da qui a là, ed esso si sposterà, e niente vi sarà impossibile. |
| Latvian | Bet ðî suga netiek izdzîta citâdi, kâ vien ar lûgðanu un gavçni. |
| Manx Gaelic | Dooyrt Yeesey roo, Kyndagh rish nyn gredjue moal: son dy firrinagh ta mee gra riu, Dy beagh nyn gredjue wheesh grine dy rass mustard, jirragh shiu rish y slieau shoh, Scugh veih shoh noon gys shid, as nee eh scughey: as cha bee nhee erbee ro-ghoillee diu. |
| Maori | Na ka mea a Ihu ki a ratou, Na to koutou whakapono iti; he pono hoki taku e mea nei ki a koutou, Ki te mea he whakapono to koutou, pera me to te pua nani te rahi, e mea koutou ki tenei maunga, Neke atu i konei ki tera wahi; a ka neke; kahore hok i he mea e kore e taea e koutou. |
| Norwegian | Jesus sa til dem: For eders vantros skyld; for sannelig sier jeg eder: Har I tro som et sennepskorn, da kan I si til dette fjell: Flytt dig derfra og dit! og det skal flytte sig, og intet skal være umulig for eder. |
| Portuguese | Disse-lhes ele: Por causa da vossa pouca fé; pois em verdade vos digo que, se tiverdes fé como um grão de mostarda direis a este monte: Passa daqui para acolá, e ele há de passar; e nada vos será impossível. |
| Rumanian | ,,Din pricina puyinei voastre credinye``, le -a zis Isus. ,,Adevqrat vq spun cq, dacq ayi avea credinyq ckt un grqunte de muwtar, ayi zice muntelui acestuia: ,Mutq-te de aici colo`, wi s`ar muta; nimic nu v`ar fi cu neputinyq. |
| Shuar | Tuíniakui Jesus tiarmiayi "Yus nekas Enentáimtachu asarum tujinkiarme. Túmaitiat nekasaiti mustasa Jinkiái Timiá uchichitiat ti uunt tsakaatsuk. Núnisan Yus ishichkisha Enentáimtakrumka nu naint ékemkata tutai nu naint Túrunattawai. Penké tujinkiashtatrume Yus nekas Enentáimtakrumka. |
| Spanish | Jesús les dijo: --Por causa de vuestra poca fe. Porque de cierto os digo que si tenéis fe como un grano de mostaza, diréis a este monte: "Pásate de aquí, allá"; y se pasará. Nada os será imposible. |
| Swahili | Yesu akawajibu, "Kwa sababu ya imani yenu haba. Nawaambieni kweli, kama tu mkiwa na imani, hata iwe ndogo kama mbegu ya haradali, mtaweza kuuambia mlima huu: `Toka hapa uende pale,` nao utakwenda. Hakuna chochote ambacho hakingewezekana kwenu."*fg* kuondolewa ila kwa sala na kufunga." |
| Swedish | Han svarade dem: "För eder otros skull. Ty sannerligen säger jag eder: Om I haven tro, vore den ock blott såsom ett senapskorn, så skolen I kunna säga till detta berg: 'Flytta dig härifrån dit bort', och det skall flytta sig; ja, intet skall då vara omöjligt för eder." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "little": littleneck, littlenecks, littleness, littlenesses, littler, littles, littlest. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "little": belittle. (additional references) | |
Words containing "little": belittled, belittlement, belittlements, belittler, belittlers, belittles. (additional references) | |
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"Little" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alittle, iittle, leettle, Leitstelle, lentle, Letley, Lettie, Lhiattee, liddle, lintle, Listel, litel, litil, Litla, litle, litlle, Litte, littel, littil, Littlehey, little'n, littles, littlke, littly, littre, lottle, luitel, Lutley, lytles, lyttel, Lyttles, lyttyl, lyttyll, pittle, vittle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "little" (pronounced li"tul) |
| 5 | l i" t u l | belittle. |
| 4 | -i" t u l | acquittal, brittle, committal, spittle, Kittel, Kittle, noncommittal, skittle, tittle, transmittal, vittle, Whittle. |
| 3 | -t u l | infantile, infertile, accidental, anecdotal, artiodactyl, battle, beetle, betel, bicoastal, bottle, brattle, Bristol, brutal, butyl, Cantle, capital, Capitol, cattle, chattel, chortle, coastal, coincidental, compartmental, congenital, consonantal, continental, crustal, crystal, dental, detrimental, developmental, digital, disgruntle, dismantle, distal, ductile, elemental, embattle, entitle, environmental, experimental, extramarital, fatal, fertile, fetal, fractal, frontal, fundamental, futile, genital, gentle, glottal, governmental, horizontal, hospital, hostel, hostile, hurtle, immortal, immotile, incidental, incremental, startle, subtitle, subtle, supplemental, tactile, tattle, temperamental, instrumental, intercontinental, intergovernmental, judgmental, kettle, lentil, lintel, mantel, mantle, marital, mental, metal, mettle, monumental, mortal, motile, Myrtle, Natal, neonatal, nettle, nonfatal, nongovernmental, nonvolatile, occidental, occipital, orbital, oriental, ornamental, parental, parietal, pedestal, periodontal, petal, Pistil, pistol, pivotal, portal, postal, postnatal, Pottle, prattle, prefrontal, premarital, prenatal, projectile, quintal, rattle, rebuttal, recital, rectal, regimental, rental, resettle, scuttle, sentimental, settle, shuttle, skeletal, societal, throttle, title, tootle, total, transcendental, transcontinental, turtle, unsentimental, unsettle, unsubtle, varietal, vegetal, versatile, vestal, vital, volatile, Wintle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-l-t-t" | |
-1 letter: title. | |
-2 letters: lilt, lite, tell, tile, till, tilt. | |
-3 letters: ell, ill, lei, let, lie, lit, tel, tet, tie, til. | |
-4 letters: el, et, it, li, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-l-t-t" | |
+1 letter: littler, littles, tillite. | |
+2 letters: belittle, littlest, stillest, tillites, tiltable. | |
+3 letters: belittled, belittler, belittles, brittlely, intellect, intertill, lethality, multiplet, paillette, rillettes, satellite, stilliest, stiltedly, tactilely, tallithes, titillate. | |
+4 letters: alliterate, belittlers, belittling, belletrist, cantillate, cavalletti, distillate, epiglottal, gillnetted, gillnetter, illiterate, illustrate, intellects, intertills, literalist, literality, literately, littleneck, littleness, multiplets, outtelling, paillettes, pastellist, pistillate, potentilla, rototilled, rototiller, satellites, stealthily, thetically, titillated, titillates, tortellini, trilateral, triliteral, tripletail, ultimately. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Historic 12. Quotations: Fiction | 13. Quotations: Non-fiction 14. Quotations: Spoken 15. Quotations: Speeches 16. Usage Frequency | 17. Names: Frequency 18. Names: Derived from 19. Names: Company Usage 20. Cities | 21. Expressions 22. Expressions: Internet 23. Translations: Modern 24. Translations: Ancient | 25. Bible Trace 26. Abbreviations 27. Acronyms 28. Derivations | 29. Rhymes 30. Anagrams 31. Bibliography |
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