See also: lilliput

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Lilliput

  1. (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)
  2. (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

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