little

Etymology
From, from , , from , from , from , equivalent to. Cognate with 🇨🇬, regional 🇨🇬 and, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,. Related also to 🇨🇬; and perhaps to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, ; compare also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, which appear to have a different root vowel. More at.

Adjective

 * 1) Small in size.
 * 2) Small and underdeveloped, particularly  in the genitals.
 * 3) Insignificant, trivial.
 * 4) Very young, of childhood age.
 * 5)  Younger.
 * 6) * 1871 October 18, The One-eyed Philosopher [pseudonym], "Street Corners", in Judy: or the London serio-comic journal, volume 9, page 255 :
 * If you want to find Little France, take any turning on the north side of Leicester square, and wander in a zigzag fashion Oxford Streetwards. The Little is rather smokier and more squalid than the Great France upon the other side of the Manche.
 * 1) Having few members.
 * 2)  Operating on a small scale.
 * 3) Short in duration; brief.
 * 4) Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow, shallow, contracted; mean, illiberal, ungenerous.
 * 1)  Younger.
 * 2) * 1871 October 18, The One-eyed Philosopher [pseudonym], "Street Corners", in Judy: or the London serio-comic journal, volume 9, page 255 :
 * If you want to find Little France, take any turning on the north side of Leicester square, and wander in a zigzag fashion Oxford Streetwards. The Little is rather smokier and more squalid than the Great France upon the other side of the Manche.
 * 1) Having few members.
 * 2)  Operating on a small scale.
 * 3) Short in duration; brief.
 * 4) Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow, shallow, contracted; mean, illiberal, ungenerous.
 * 1) Having few members.
 * 2)  Operating on a small scale.
 * 3) Short in duration; brief.
 * 4) Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow, shallow, contracted; mean, illiberal, ungenerous.
 * 1) Having few members.
 * 2)  Operating on a small scale.
 * 3) Short in duration; brief.
 * 4) Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow, shallow, contracted; mean, illiberal, ungenerous.
 * 1) Short in duration; brief.
 * 2) Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow, shallow, contracted; mean, illiberal, ungenerous.
 * 1) Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow, shallow, contracted; mean, illiberal, ungenerous.
 * 1) Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow, shallow, contracted; mean, illiberal, ungenerous.

Usage notes
Some authorities regard both littler and littlest as non-standard. The OED says of the word little: "the adjective has no recognized mode of comparison. The difficulty is commonly evaded by resort to a synonym (as smaller, smallest); some writers have ventured to employ the unrecognized forms littler, littlest, which are otherwise confined to dialect or imitations of childish or illiterate speech." The forms lesser and least are encountered in animal names such as lesser flamingo and least weasel.

Adverb

 * 1) Not much.
 * 2) Not at all.
 * 1) Not at all.
 * 1) Not at all.
 * 1) Not at all.
 * 1) Not at all.

Determiner

 * 1) Not much, only a little: only a small amount (of).

Usage notes

 * is used with uncountable nouns, with plural countable nouns.
 * Little can be used with or without an article. With the indefinite article, the emphasis is that there is indeed some, albeit not much:
 * With no article or the definite article (or what), the emphasis is on the scarcity:
 * With no article or the definite article (or what), the emphasis is on the scarcity:

Pronoun

 * 1) Not much; not a large amount.

Noun

 * 1)  A small amount.
 * 2)  A child, particularly an infant.
 * 3) An adult in a child-like role, or in the more junior of two paired roles.
 * 4)  A newly initiated member of a sorority or fraternity, who is mentored by a big.
 * 5)  The participant in ageplay who acts out the younger role.
 * 6)  One who has mentally age regressed to a childlike state.
 * I go up for my Little tomorrow.
 * 1)  A newly initiated member of a sorority or fraternity, who is mentored by a big.
 * 2)  The participant in ageplay who acts out the younger role.
 * 3)  One who has mentally age regressed to a childlike state.
 * I go up for my Little tomorrow.
 * 1)  The participant in ageplay who acts out the younger role.
 * 2)  One who has mentally age regressed to a childlike state.
 * I go up for my Little tomorrow.
 * I go up for my Little tomorrow.
 * I go up for my Little tomorrow.
 * I go up for my Little tomorrow.
 * I go up for my Little tomorrow.