tiny
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈtaɪni/
tiny (comparative tinier, superlative tiniest)
Synonyms- See also Thesaurus:tiny
- French: minuscule
- German: winzig
- Italian: minuscolo, piccolo, piccino, minuto, microscopico
- Portuguese: minúsculo, muito pequeno
- Russian: кро́шечный
- Spanish: diminuto, minúsculo, pequeñito
tiny (plural tinies)
- A small child; an infant.
- 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not…, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 28:
- ‘You know I loved your husband like a brother, and you know I've loved you and Sylvia ever since she was a tiny.’
- 1982, Young children in China (page 84)
- The lessons we saw have been well suited to the age of the children as regards music, singing and moving (and stories about animals for the tinies and more abstract themes for the older children).
- 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not…, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 28:
- Anything very small.
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