Usually means: Small in size or amount.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word little:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. little: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. little: Merriam-Webster
  3. little: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. little: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. little: Collins English Dictionary
  6. little: Vocabulary.com
  7. LIttle, Little, little, little: Wordnik
  8. little: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Little, little: Wiktionary
  10. little: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. little: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. little: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. little: Dictionary.com
  14. little: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. little: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Little (album), Little (automobile), Little (film), Little (surname), Little: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Little: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. little: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. little: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. little: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. little: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  22. little: FreeDictionary.org
  23. little: Rhymezone
  24. little: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  25. little: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  26. Little: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  27. Little, Little: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. little: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. LITTLE: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. LITTLE: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Little: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. little: Idioms
  2. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. little: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. little, little: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. little: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See least as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Small in size.
adjective:  Small and underdeveloped, particularly (of a male) in the genitals.
adjective:  Insignificant, trivial.
adjective:  (offensive) Used to belittle a person.
adjective:  Very young, of childhood age.
adjective:  (of a sibling) Younger.
adjective:  (often capitalized) Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
adjective:  (derogatory) To imply that the inhabitants of the place have an insular attitude and are hostile to those they perceive as foreign.
adjective:  Having few members.
adjective:  (of an industry or other field, or institution(s) therein, often capitalized) Operating on a small scale.
adjective:  Short in duration; brief.
adjective:  Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow, shallow, contracted; mean, illiberal, ungenerous.
adverb:  Not much.
adverb:  Not at all.
noun:  (chiefly uncountable or in the singular) A small amount.
noun:  (countable, informal) A child, particularly an infant.
noun:  An adult in a child-like role, or in the more junior of two paired roles.
noun:  (countable, university slang) A newly initiated member of a sorority or fraternity, who is mentored by a big.
noun:  (countable, BDSM, ABDL) The participant in ageplay who acts out the younger role.
noun:  (countable) One who has mentally age regressed to a childlike state.
noun:  A characteristical surname.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Breathitt County, Kentucky, United States, named after the local Little family.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Tyler County, West Virginia, United States.
noun:  Short for little go (“type of examination”). [(UK, university slang, dated) The preliminary examination for a degree.]

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