• (British)
  • (RP) IPA: /smɔːl/
• (America)
  • (GA) IPA: /smɔl/
  • (cot-caught) IPA: /smɑl/
• (Canada) IPA: /smɑl/
• (AU, New Zealand) IPA: /smoːl/

small (comparative smaller, superlative smallest)

1. Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.

   A small serving of ice cream.

   A small group.

   He made us all feel small.

2. (figuratively) Young, as a child.

   Remember when the children were small?

3. (writing, incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written or printed letters.
4. Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.

   • A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.

5. Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.

   a small space of time

6. (archaic) Slender, gracefully slim.

• (not large or big) little, microscopic, minuscule, minute, tiny; see also Thesaurus:tiny
• (young, as a child) little, wee (Scottish), young
• (of written letters) lowercase, minuscule

• See also Thesaurus:large
• (not large or big) capital, big, generous (said of an amount of something given), large
• (young, as a child) adult, grown-up, old
• (of written letters) big, capital, majuscule, uppercase

• French: petit, minuscule
• German: klein, gering
• Italian: piccolo
• Portuguese: pequeno
• Russian: ма́ленький
• Spanish: pequeño, chico

• French: petit, jeune
• German: klein, jung
• Italian: piccolo, giovane
• Portuguese: pequeno, jovem
• Russian: мале́нький
• Spanish: pequeño, joven

• Portuguese: minúsculo
• Spanish: minúsculas

small (comparative smaller, superlative smallest)

1. In a small fashion.
2. In or into small pieces.
   • 2009, Ingrid Hoffman, CBS Early Morning for September 28, 2009 (transcription)

     That's going to go in there. We've got some chives small chopped as well.

3. (obsolete) To a small extent.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, Lvcrece (First Quarto)‎^{[It small avails my mood.]}, London: Printed by Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], OCLC 236076664 ↗, line 1273:

4. (obsolete) In a low tone; softly.
   • c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act 1, scene 2], line 49, [https://books.google.com/books?id=uNtBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PAThat's all one: you shall play it in a mask, and / you may speak as small as you will. page That's all one: you shall play it in a mask, and / you may speak as small as you will.]:

small (plural smalls)

1. (rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.

small (smalls, present participle smalling; past and past participle smalled)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To make little or less.
2. (intransitive) To become small; to dwindle.

   • And smalled till she was nought at all.

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