Definitions for miniature

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miniature min·i·a·ture

Spelling: [min-ee-uh-cher, -choo r, min- Miniature is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 468 anagrams from letters in miniature (aeiimnrtu).

Definitions for miniature

noun

1. a representation or image of something on a small or reduced scale.
2. a greatly reduced or abridged form or copy.
3. a very small painting, especially a portrait, on ivory, vellum, or the like.
4. the art of executing such a painting.
5. an illumination in an illuminated manuscript or book.

Idioms

1. in miniature, in a reduced size; on a small scale:

adjective

1. being, on, or represented on a small scale; reduced.

Origin of miniature

1580-90; Italian miniatura miniature painting Medieval Latin miniātūra, equivalent to miniāt(us) (see miniate) + -ūra -ure; sense developme

Examples for miniature

She took a miniature from his neck, and I drew his purse and watch from him and handed them to her.

I declined the tray; so he placed it on his own knees, to act as a miniature table.

Can our sweet Sylph be going to heaven, to seek the original of the miniature?

For next to no money, the photographer Christine McConnell makes cakes and cookies that are their own miniature horror movies.

As I stood over the mud barracks, my translator zeroed in on a miniature mud tank complete with a detailed main gun and top hatch.

He was caught in the miniature rapid at the bottom of the pool.

A representative assembly, John Adams wrote in 1776, “should be in miniature an exact portrait of the people at large.”

Lucy Ann did her miniature cooking with great seriousness and care.

Underneath, a miniature version of the bug-crazy man is revealed, himself thwacking away in an alternate dimension.

She sends a miniature of her own image to the court, envious that it will enjoy a proximity she will never attain.