Lilliputians
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lilliputians — Lil·li·pu·tian || ‚lɪlɪ pjuËʃjÉ™n n. resident of Lilliput; very small person, dwarf; trivial or petty person adj. small, tiny, dwarfish; petty, trivial … English contemporary dictionary
Cheese Mites; or, Lilliputians in a London Restaurant — Screenshot from the film Directed by Walter R. Booth Produced by … Wikipedia
Gulliver's Travels — (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships , is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a… … Wikipedia
Gulliver's Travels (film) — Infobox Film name = Gulliver s Travels caption = imdb rating = director = Dave Fleischer producer = Max Fleischer writer = Dan Gordon Cal Howard Tedd Pierce Edmond Seward Isadore Sparber Jonathan Swift (novel Gulliver s Travels ) starring = Pinto … Wikipedia
Mistress Masham's Repose — (1946) is a novel by T. H. White that describes the adventures of a girl who discovers a group of Lilliputians, a race of tiny people from Jonathan Swift s satirical classic Gulliver s Travels. The story is set in Northamptonshire, England,… … Wikipedia
Swift, Jonathan — born Nov. 30, 1667, Dublin, Ire. died Oct. 19, 1745, Dublin Irish author, the foremost prose satirist in English. He was a student at Dublin s Trinity College during the anti Catholic Revolution of 1688 in England. Irish Catholic reaction in… … Universalium
Gulliver's Travels (radio) — Broadcast HistoryThe Radio Tales production of “Gulliver’s Travels” was first broadcast via NPR on December 7, 1999 [National Public Radio: NPR Quarterly Edition Fall 1999 . NPR Marketing, Oct. – Dec. 1999, Volume V, No. IV] . The program… … Wikipedia
Microlecture — The term microlecture is used not to refer to microcontent for microlearning, but to actual instructional content that is formatted for online and mobile learning using a constructivist approach. More specifically, as described in the Chronicle… … Wikipedia
Lilliputian — UK [ˌlɪlɪˈpjuːʃ(ə)n] / US [ˌlɪləˈpjuʃ(ə)n] adjective extremely small • Etymology: From the Lilliputians, a race of very small people in the book Gulliver s Travels. Derived word: Lilliputian UK / US noun countable Word forms Lilliputian :… … English dictionary
Gulliver — noun Date: 1726 an Englishman in Jonathan Swift s satire Gulliver s Travels who makes voyages to the imaginary lands of the Lilliputians, Brobdingnagians, Laputans, and Houyhnhnms … New Collegiate Dictionary
