• Aragonese: chicote
• Chinese: 小 (xiǎo)
• Crimean Tatar: kiçik, kiçkene
• Czech: malý
• Danish: lille
• Dutch: klein
• Finnish: pieni
• French: petit
• German: klein wenig
• Greek: μικρός (mikrós), λίγος
• Hungarian: kicsi, kis
• Italian: piccolo
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: بچووک, بچکۆله‌

• Sanskrit: अल्प
• Spanish: pequeño
• Swedish: liten

• Czech: malý
• Danish: lille
• Dutch: jongere, klein
• Finnish: pikku-
• French: cadet
• German: klein
• Greek: μικρός (mikrós)
• Hungarian: kis, younger brother: öcs, younger sister: húg
• Italian: piccolo
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: بچووک, بچکۆله‌

• Swedish: yngre, lille-

• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܙܥܘܪܐ (z‘ūrā, z‘ūro) , ܙܥܘܪܬܐ (z‘ūrtā, z‘ūrto)

  Hebrew: זעורא (z‘ūrā, z‘ūro) , זעורתא (z‘ūrtā, z‘ūrto)

• ttbc Balinese: cenik
• ttbc Chinese: 小 (xiǎo)
• ttbc Dutch: klein
• ttbc Gujarati: થોડું
• ttbc Hebrew: קטן
• Hindiथोडा
• ttbc Icelandic: lítill
• ttbc Ido: mikra
• ttbc Indonesian: kecil
• ttbc Irish: beag
• ttbc Pashtun: كوچنى (kuchnay)
• ttbc Spanish: menor (2); poco , poca ,(2)
• ttbc Telugu: చిన్న
• ttbc Welsh: bach, bychan

Adverb

1. Not much.

   This is a little known fact.

   She spoke little and listened less.

Antonyms

• much

Translations

Determiner

( less, least)

1. A small amount

   There is little water left.

Translations

Usage notes

• Little is used with uncountable nouns. Few is used with plural countable nouns.

Related terms

• a little
• little by little

Little is a surname and may refer to:

• Angela Little
• Bentley Little, American author
• Bingo Little
• Booker Little
• Brian Little
• Carlo Little
• Cleavon Little
• Donald Little, a Manitoba judge
• Floyd Little
• Frances Little
• Frank Little, Australian archbishop **little man
• Frank Little, U.S. trade unionist
• Gerry P. Little
• Grady Little
• Henry F. W. Little, American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
• Jason Little (cartoonist)
• Jason Little (rugby player)
• Jean Little
• Joan Little
• John Little
• John N. Little
• Ken Little (born 1947), a modernist American sculptor
• Lawson Little
• Little Jack Little
• Malcolm Little
• Mark Little (Australian actor)
• Mark Little (Irish journalist)
• Neil Little
• Nicky Little, Fijian rugby union player
• Ralf Little
• Rich Little
• Robert A. Little
• Ross Little
• Sally Little
• Steve Little
• Stuart Little, A fictional mouse, in many of E. B. White's short stories, and in some films
• Syd Little
• Tasmin Little
• Thomas Little
• Tony Little
• Walter Little
• William Little (Pittsburgh mayor), politician in Pittsburgh.
• William Little (English surgeon), the doctor who identified cerebral palsy in children
• Zarah Little

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