Definition/Meaning of small

• English - Adjective: small ( comparative smaller , superlative smallest ) Not large or big; insignificant; few in numbers or size . A small serving of ice cream . A small group . He made us all feel small . ( figuratively ) Young , as a child . Remember when the children were small ? ( writing , incomparable ) Minuscule or lowercase , referring to written letters . Envincing little worth or ability; not…
• English - Adverb: small ( comparative smaller , superlative smallest ) In a small fashion . c . 1593 , William Shakespeare , A Midsummer Night's Dream , Act I , scene 2 , line 49: That's all one: you shall play it in a mask , and / you may speak as small as you will . 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…
• English - Noun: small ( plural smalls ) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest , now usually with anatomical reference to the back . ( UK , in the plural ) Underclothes . Derived terms small of the back
• English - Verb: small ( third-person singular simple present smalls , present participle smalling , simple past and past participle smalled ) ( obsolete , transitive ) To make little or less . ( intransitive ) To become small; to dwindle . Thomas Hardy And smalled till she was nought at all .
• Low German - Adjective: small ( comparative smaller , superlative smallst ) narrow small , slender Declension