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LILLIPUT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A land imagined by Jonathan Swift that was inhabited by tiny people
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Lilliput" is a kind of...):
fictitious place; imaginary place; mythical place (a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings)
Derivation:
Lilliputian (tiny; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Lilliput)
Context examples:
With this answer the envoy returned to Lilliput; and the monarch of Blefuscu related to me all that had passed; offering me at the same time (but under the strictest confidence) his gracious protection, if I would continue in his service; wherein, although I believed him sincere, yet I resolved never more to put any confidence in princes or ministers, where I could possibly avoid it; and therefore, with all due acknowledgments for his favourable intentions, I humbly begged to be excused.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
In this terrible agitation of mind, I could not forbear thinking of Lilliput, whose inhabitants looked upon me as the greatest prodigy that ever appeared in the world; where I was able to draw an imperial fleet in my hand, and perform those other actions, which will be recorded for ever in the chronicles of that empire, while posterity shall hardly believe them, although attested by millions.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The envoy further added, that in order to maintain the peace and amity between both empires, his master expected that his brother of Blefuscu would give orders to have me sent back to Lilliput, bound hand and foot, to be punished as a traitor.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
