small
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
How often you will meet it
Rank 304 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 68,414 times across 175,112 chapters — 0.033% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent also: little a little dining rooma little house
- relatively moderate, limited, or small also: minor, modest, small-scale, pocket-size, pocket-sized a small businessa newspaper with a modest circulation
- (of children and animals) young, immature also: little what a big little boy you aresmall children
- slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope a series of death struggles with small time in between
- low or inferior in station or quality also: humble, low, lowly, modest a humble cottagea lowly parish priest
- lowercase also: little, minuscule little asmall a
small in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Down its steps a small, neat figure was tripping.
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1
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A small kindliness seems often to be watered and fertilized by magic.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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It was a small dog, apparently in the last agony of death from thirst.
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know · Hamilton Wright [Editor] Mabie · Chapter 1
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The town is full of people, great and small, Each inn is crowded to its very wall.
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1
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One rode sidewise, both looked absurdly small, and even that far away the boy knew them for strangers.
The Heart of the Hills · John, Jr. Fox · Chapter 1