Lilliput
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English
Proper noun
Lilliput
- (fiction) An imaginary island populated by tiny people, in the book Gulliver's Travels.
- John Hardesty Bland (1971) Forests of Lilliput The Realm of Mosses and Lichens: “(book title)”
- (by extension) A generic fictional country, sometimes contrasted with a counterpart Brobdingnag or Blefuscu.
- Ronald E. Miller, Peter D. Blair (2009) Input-Output Analysis: Foundations and Extensions, page 388: “The Land of Lilliput plans to build a new power plant”
- Dermot McAleese (2004) Economics for Business: Competition, Macro-stability, and Globalisation: “Two economies , Lilliput and Oz , exist beside each other”
