Definition of Dwarf

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Definition of Dwarf

Dwarf

An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being.

To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.

To become small; to diminish in size.

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Dwarf Quotations

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.
Laurence Sterne

Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac.
Meg White

The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant.
Robert Fortune

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
Robert Burton

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.
John Petit-Senn

Dwarf Translations

dwarf in Afrikaans is dwerg
dwarf in Dutch is dwergachtig, minuscuul
dwarf in French is nain
dwarf in German is Zwerg
dwarf in Italian is nano
dwarf in Norwegian is dverg
dwarf in Spanish is enano

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