Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- The regularly formed superlative of little; least.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective having or being distinguished by diminutive size.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
superlative form oflittle : mostlittle .
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Examples
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I loved carrying my babes and now my littlest is 21 months and pretty much done.
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I was talking to a friend the other day, she has younger children than I have, her littlest is only 3.
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The littlest is here, beneath the woman's jacket; the little bones are wearing a dress — a girl, then.
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The littlest is here, beneath the woman's jacket; the little bones are wearing a dress — a girl, then.
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I think when your littlest is around a year you’ll know.
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The littlest was a scrap of a thing, and it took off only to be grabbed by the Snake and slung roughly back to stand with the other three.
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You will notice that I am the 'littlest' of the two.
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And for the first time in his career, when he smelt burning wood pulp and looked down at the line of messenger boys with a ready-made frown and caught the eyes of Mickey, the "littlest," smiling impudently at him,
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Tim played on his privileges as "littlest," and his mother's barely concealed partiality, and was as irritating to his elders as a small person can be, who is always present when he is not wanted, absent when he is, in peace adopts the airs of a conqueror, and in warfare promptly cries, and collapses into a curly-headed baby boy, whom the authorities declare it is "cr-uel" to bully!
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"littlest" of his "little loves" -- in vain he asserted that she was his patron saint, and that it was his soul's delight to pray to her; she accepted the compliment with her eyes fixed upon the manger.
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