small

small
1 /smO:l/ adjective
1 SIZE not large in size or amount: He's a small man, only five feet tall. | Luxembourg is one of the smallest countries in Europe. | No, not that one - the small one with the red handle! | a smaller increase in the inflation rate than last year
—see little 1
2 UNIMPORTANT a small problem, job, mistake etc is unimportant or easy to deal with: Your work is good, but I found a number of small mistakes. | It's a small matter but worth mentioning.
3 YOUNG CHILD a small child is young: She's married with three small children.
4 small farmer/dealer/business a farmer, business etc that does not involve large amounts of money: Most of the land in this region belongs to small farmers.
5 LETTER small letters are the smaller of the two forms that we use, for example `b' rather than `B'
6 a conservative with a small `c'/a pacifist with a small `p' etc informal someone who believes in the principles you have mentioned, but not very strongly
7 small fortune a lot of money: That dress must have cost you a small fortune.
8 make sb feel small to do something to make someone feel stupid, unimportant, or ashamed: She was always laughing at me and making me feel small.
9 in a/some small way if something helps, affects, influences etc it has an effect but not an important one: It was good to feel we had helped in some small way.
10 VOICE a small voice is quiet and soft: “I don't want to stay here.” she said in a small voice.
11 small beer BrE
/small potatoes AmE someone or something that is not at all important: Parking fines? Pretty small beer compared with some of the things he's done in the past.
12 small fry informal
a) unimportant people or things: Of course no one bothers about small fry like us.
b) AmE children: I've sent the small fry out to play in the yard.
 — small adverb: He writes so small I can't read it. — smallness noun (U) 2 noun
1 the small of your back the lower part of your back where it curves
2 smalls (plural) BrE old-fashioned informal underwear

Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.

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