little people

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plural of little person

little people

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plural noun

1

: tiny imaginary beings (such as fairies, elves, and leprechauns) of folklore

2

: children

3

: common people

Examples of little people in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Plural noun

In addition, Peter Dinklage, the acclaimed Game of Thrones star born with a form of dwarfism, criticized the idea of Disney casting little people as the famed seven dwarfs from the famed Brothers Grimm tale during a 2022 interview with podcaster Marc Maron. —Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025

In director Terry Gilliam's first film in his Trilogy of Imagination, Ralph Richardson plays a Supreme Being who employs little people to fix holes in the space-time continuum. —James Mercadante, EW.com, 5 June 2025

Questions about whether making a movie in which little people are treated like retrograde caricatures was a cool thing to do in this day and age. —David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2025

Filmmaker and director Julie Wyman went into creating her newest documentary, The Tallest Dwarf, with the ambition of telling the stories of little people in a totally different way. —Virgie Tovar, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

Plural Noun

1699, in the meaning defined at sense 3

Rhymes for little people

• craftspeople
• laypeople
• salespeople
• townspeople
• tradespeople
• workpeople
• businesspeople
• steeple