Usually means: Limited in size, extent, capacity.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word small:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. small: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. small: Merriam-Webster
  3. small: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. small: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. small, the small: Collins English Dictionary
  6. small: Vocabulary.com
  7. Small, small: Wordnik
  8. small: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Small, small: Wiktionary
  10. small: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. small: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. small: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. small: Dictionary.com
  14. small: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. small: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. SMALL, Small (journal), Small (surname), Small: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Small: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. small: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. small: Rhymezone
  20. small: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. small: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Small: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. Small: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. small: FreeDictionary.org
  25. small: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. small: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. small: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SMALL: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. small: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SMALL: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. small: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. small: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SMALL: Acronym Finder
  3. small: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -small: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. small: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
adjective:  Humiliated or insignificant.
adjective:  Having a small penis, muscles, or other important body parts, regardless of overall body size.
adjective:  (figuratively, not comparable) Young, as a child.
adjective:  (writing, not comparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written or printed letters.
adjective:  Evincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
adjective:  Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
adjective:  Synonym of little (“of an industry or institution(s) therein: operating on a small scale, unlike larger counterparts”)
adjective:  (archaic) Slender, gracefully slim.
adjective:  (especially clothing, food or drink) That is small (the manufactured size).
adverb:  In a small fashion
adverb:  In or into small pieces.
adverb:  (obsolete) To a small extent.
adverb:  (obsolete) In a low tone; softly.
noun:  (uncountable, especially clothing, food or drink) One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured.
noun:  (countable, especially clothing, food or drink) An item labelled or denoted as being that size.
noun:  (countable, especially with respect to clothing) One who fits an item of that size.
noun:  (countable, rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To make little or less.
verb:  (intransitive) To become small; to dwindle.
noun:  A surname.

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