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Lilliput
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lilliput
English
Etymology
en :bor<unc> ga:
en Borrowed from ga -? Doesn't correspond with the modern common name, ga An tIúr.
Proper noun
en townland county/Westmeath province/Leinster c/Ireland.
en fiction An imaginary island populated by tiny people, in the book Gulliver's Travels.
Forests of Lilliput The Realm of Mosses and Lichens John Hardesty Bland 1971 (book title)
en by extension A generic fictional country, sometimes contrasted with a counterpart Brobdingnag or Blefuscu.
Input-Output Analysis: Foundations and Extensions 2009 Ronald E. Miller, Peter D. Blair 388 The Land of Lilliput plans to build a new power plant
Economics for Business: Competition, Macro-stability, and Globalisation Dermot McAleese 2004 Two economies, Lilliput and Oz, exist beside each other
en locality shire:Pref/Indigo north eastern s/Victoria c/Australia.
Derived terms
lilliputian
Further reading
en Fictional locations Gulliver's Travels