miniature
Word Statistics
Academic vocabulary
Regularly used in writing and speech
Moderate complexity
Analysis:
- • Academic vocabulary
- • Standard complexity
1. Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
2. A small version of something; a model of reduced scale.
"There was a miniature of a whaling ship in a glass bottle over the mantlepiece."
3. A small, highly detailed painting, a portrait miniature.
4. The art of painting such highly detailed miniature works.
5. An illustration in an illuminated manuscript.
6. A musical composition which is short in duration.
"Sacha composed a miniature for strings as a final project at the conservatory."
7. A chess game which is concluded with very few moves.
8. A token in a game representing a unit or character.
"Jack had dozens of miniatures of Napoleonic footsoldiers painted in detailed period regalia for his wargames."
9. Lettering in red; rubric distinction.
10. A particular feature or trait.
1. To make smaller than normal; to reproduce in miniature.
1. Smaller than normal.
"I find miniature dogs annoying; they seem to yap more than full-size dogs."
Source: en.wiktionary.org
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