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SMALL PERSON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does small person mean?
• SMALL PERSON (noun)
The noun SMALL PERSON has 1 sense:
1. a person of below average size
Familiarity information: SMALL PERSON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person of below average size
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("small person" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "small person"):
dwarf; midget; nanus (a person who is markedly small)
lilliputian (a very small person (resembling a Lilliputian))
homunculus; manikin; mannikin (a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal)
Pigmy; Pygmy (any member of various peoples having an average height of less than five feet)
pigmy; pygmy (an unusually small individual)
half-pint; peewee; runt; shrimp (disparaging terms for small people)
Tom Thumb (a very small person)
wisp (a small person)
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