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From Middle English smal, from Old English smæl (small, narrow, slender), from Proto-Germanic *smalaz (small), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mal-, *(s)mel- (small, mean, malicious). Cognate with Scots smal; sma (small); West Frisian smel (narrow); Dutch smal (narrow); German schmal (narrow, small); Danish, Norwegian, Swedish små (small); Latin malus (bad); Russian малый (mályj, small).

Adjective [edit]

small (comparative smaller, superlative smallest)

  1. Not large or big; insignificant; few in numbers or size.
    A small serving of ice cream.
    A small group.
    He made us all feel small.
  2. (figuratively) Young, as a child.
    Remember when the children were small?
  3. (writing, incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters.

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Adverb [edit]

small (comparative smaller, superlative smallest)

  1. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) In a small fashion.
  2. In or into small pieces.
    • 2009, Ingrid Hoffman, CBS Early Morning for September 28, 2009 (transcription)
      Thats[sic] going to go in there. Weve[sic] got some chives small chopped as well.
  3. (obsolete) To a small extent.

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Noun [edit]

small (plural smalls)

  1. Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.
  2. (UK, in the plural) Underclothes.

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small (third-person singular simple present smalls, present participle smalling, simple past and past participle smalled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make little or less.
  2. (intransitive) To become small; to dwindle.
    • Thomas Hardy
      And smalled till she was nought at all.

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small

  1. past tense of smälla.