lilliput

• Nombre propio o sustantivo que designa un país imaginario de la novela «Los viajes de Gulliver» de Jonathan Swift, habitado por una raza de personas diminutas. Por extensión, se usa para referirse a algo o alguien diminuto o insignificante.

A proper noun referring to a fictional land in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, inhabited by a race of tiny people.

incontable · nombre propio

1. Imaginary land of tiny peopleB2formal

   A fictional island nation from Jonathan Swift's novel 'Gulliver's Travels', inhabited by people only six inches tall.

   Liliput

   • Gulliver was shipwrecked on the shores of Lilliput.
   • The tiny inhabitants of Lilliput tied Gulliver down with hundreds of small ropes.
   • Swift used Lilliput to satirize the political conflicts of his time.