miniature
Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
Other meanings
A small version of something; a model of reduced scale.
“There was a miniature of a whaling ship in a glass bottle over the mantelpiece.”
A small, highly detailed painting, a portrait miniature.
Synonyms
- toy
A kind of
- copy
Related words
- eye miniature
- miniaturist
- mini-
- mini
- miniaturism
- in miniature
Word history
From Latin "miniō" (to colour red).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “miniature” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.