"Lilliput" meaning in English

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Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Lilliput
  1. (fiction) An imaginary island populated by tiny people, in the book Gulliver's Travels.
    Sense id: en-Lilliput-en-name-DnDZ9xBF Categories (other): Fiction, Gulliver's Travels Disambiguation of Gulliver's Travels: 93 7 Topics: fiction, literature, media, publishing
  2. (by extension) A generic fictional country, sometimes contrasted with a counterpart Brobdingnag or Blefuscu. Tags: broadly
    Sense id: en-Lilliput-en-name-6jgpSLMy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Fictional locations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 80 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 25 75 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 18 82 Disambiguation of Fictional locations: 14 86
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: lilliputian
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