Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Small, slender, and trim. Used of a girl or woman. See Synonyms at small.
- n. A clothing size for short slender women.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Little; of small size; tiny.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of a woman: fairly short and of slim build.
- adj. Of women's clothing: of small size.
- adj. Small, little; insignificant; petty.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Small, little; of a woman or girl, of small size and trim figure.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a garment size for short or slender women
- adj. very small
Etymologies
- Borrowing from French petite, feminine of petit ("small, little"). (Wiktionary)
- French, feminine of petit; see petit. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“– In 1638 they opened what they called the petite écoles, in which Lancelot,”
“My heart and other organs belong to a certain petite, disturbing hottie with a penchant for road rage and telling outlandish stories about our supposed personal life.”
“More photos in petite anglaise book launch party comments (12) about me about the book press clippings petite's paris facebook twitter feeds my first novel is available as a paperback original in the UK and can be ordered here with free worldwide postage”
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“She was old and feeble, small and thin -- that's why everyone called her petite maman -- but once she knew what she ought to do, then her spirit overpowered the weakness of her wizened body.”
“When I go to steakhouses here in Madison, I always order the smallest size -- "petite" -- and it's 6 ounces.”
“She had never regretted it for one hour, never swerved from the conviction that she and Michael were a perfect match -- he, tall, stalwart, black-haired and strong; she "petite" -- she loved the”
“Paperback petite is due to hit the shops in February 2009, so why it’s already on Amazon, I’m not entirely sure.”
“I think I felt a bit cheated as well – I was much more interested in petite’s legal struggle (and eventual triumph) than the Rennes story.”
“In the casting notice we got our hands on earlier this month, Jane is described as a petite blonde with a “Botticelli angel-like face…and crimson irises.””
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘petite’.
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Fairylike
fairylike, enchanted, pixieish, pixyish, impish, mischievous, fluttery, magical, bewitching, enchanting, fey, otherworldly and 126 more...
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Fake Minerals & Gemstones
dogbite, oliverstone, priceisrite, flapis faloozi, uptite, spondulikite, flashlite, crumpetwithvegemite, samsonite, goodnite, tennisquartz, fallfromagreathite and 101 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Adjectives
sagacious, average, angry, mad, crazy, giant, ugly, pretty, happy, sad, lonely, solitary and 119 more...
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Small in Size
Short and cute synonyms for small
wee, little, tiny, mini, lil, bitty, teensy, itsy, bitsy, teeny, petite, weeny and 6 more...
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Nicknames you shouldn't give to an ax...
primrose, snookums, lavender, piglet, rainbow sunshine, kitten, fuzzy, sweetie, wiggles, care bear, love-a-lot, cheery and 87 more...
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I am : physical
Describing appearance and physique. More quantitative than qualitative/comparative. Can be used to sum a person up one-wordedly. (Still working on the definition of what I want in this list.)
handsome, beautiful, pretty, comely, ugly, rugged, buxom, buff, chiseled, svelte, lithe, portly and 35 more...
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Small stuff
Adjectives that describe small objects.
small, tiny, diminutive, little, dinky, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teeny, bitsy, bitty, bantam, teensy and 23 more...
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English with Tongue
French words and phrases used by English speakers.
objet d'art, nom de plume, petite, bon voyage, avant-garde, faux pas, faux, touché, répondez, s'il vo..., rouge, papier mâché, joie de vivre and 85 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Junk
walrus, fascination, broadway, fickle, downturn, bridge, gargle, rotunda, mesh, fab, shortlife, strumming and 304 more...
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kingrat47's Words
procrustean, devolution, cacophony, hippopotamus, crunch, beware, chortled, sibilant, subtle, undermine, acromegaly, acropolis and 645 more...
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fliti's Words
panache, mushaboom, aubergine, serpentine, glimpse, schadenfreude, syzygy, plethora, zeitgeist, defenestrate, callipygian, ubiquitous and 239 more...
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Pleasing words
A list of miscellaneous words, fitting in no exact theme, that I happen to enjoy.
portmanteau, aesthetic, deviation, conglomerate, treachery, soluble, bildungsroman, soliloquy, irrevocable, effervescent, phrontistery, aeipathy and 180 more...
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speaking in tongues
schadenfreude, naïve, gnosis, sangfroid, capisce, flagrante delicto, lux, veritas, gravitas, coquette, panache, nom de plume and 73 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for petite.
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