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Little

Definition: Little

Little

Adjective

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".

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".

Adverb

1. Not much; "he talked little about his family".

Noun

1. 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)

 

Specialty Definition: Little

DomainDefinition

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Little Belt

(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."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Little

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField
LINCOSEnglishLittle Intelligent CommunitiesComputing

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Little

Synonyms: 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)

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Synonyms within Context: Little

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Little

English words defined with "little": a littleBattle of Little Bighorn, Battle of the Little BighornLittle Bighorn, little brother, little by little, Little Englander, Little ones. (references)
Specialty definitions using "little": DOMINE DO LITTLEGreat Cry and Little WoolLITTLE 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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Modern Usage: Little

DomainUsage

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Little

DomainTitle

References

  • Osborne & Little Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Little Switzerland, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Wuxi Little Swan Co Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • My Little House Crafts Book: 18 Projects from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House Stories (Little House Craft Books) (reference)

  • The Little Book of Letting Go: A Revolutionary 30-Day Program to Cleanse Your Mind, Lift Your Spirit and Replenish Your Soul (reference)

  • Little Actors Theater: Four Plays to Act Out With Three-Dimensional Scenes and Characters That Really Move (reference)

  • 60 Years of Little Golden Books: Anniversary Collection (reference)

  • Little House (9 Books, Boxed Set) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Little

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Photo Album: Little

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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.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Little
 

"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."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Little".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Little brass bell ringing.A yipping and yapping little dog.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Little

AuthorQuotation

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.

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Historic Usage: Little

AuthorDateQuotation

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Little

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Little

SubjectTopicQuote

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!

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Little

SpeakerPhrase(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.

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Speeches: Little

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Abraham Lincoln

1861-1865By 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

1929-1933Its intricate and involved rules of procedure have become the refuge of both big and little criminals.

Dwight Eisenhower

1953-1961Our 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

1961-1963United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969Last year, with very little fanfare the Congress and the executive branch moved in that field.

Gerald Ford

1974-1977Life will be a little better here for my children than for me.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989I know that he must have died inside a little each time.

George Bush

1989-1993When I held the little guy fo the first time, the troubles at home and abroad seemed manageable, and totally in perspective.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001Now he's got a good job and he supports his little boy.

George W. Bush

2001-2005If 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.

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Usage Frequency: Little

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)56.62%24,546348
Determiner (general)22.01%9,543998
Adverb (general)17.34%7,5171,283
Noun (proper)4.02%1,7444,824
                    Total100.00%43,350N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Little

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
LittleLast name46,000226
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Little

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "little".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
PaulaN/AAncient Roman

Little

BoghosN/AArmenian

Little

ChephirahN/ABiblical

A little lioness

DamarisN/ABiblical

A little woman

HakkatanN/ABiblical

Little

JaalaN/ABiblical

A little doe or goat

MesobaiteN/ABiblical

A little doe

MiklothN/ABiblical

Little wants

MiklothN/ABiblical

Little voices

MizarN/ABiblical

Little

PaulN/ABiblical

Little

TikvahN/ABiblical

A little line

ZairN/ABiblical

Little

ZoarN/ABiblical

Little

PavelN/ABulgarian

Little

PauN/ACatalan

Little

HavelN/ACzech

Little

PavelN/ACzech

Little

PoulN/ADanish

Little

PaulaN/AEnglish

Little

PaulettaN/AEnglish

Little

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Usage in Company Names: Little

CountryNameCountryName
China

Wuxi Little Swan Co Limited

United Kingdom

Osborne & Little Plc

USA

Little Switzerland, Inc.

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Cities: Little


1. Little, KY
Zip Code(s): 41346
Country: USA

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Expressions: Little

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Little

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
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