Adjective

Small in size.

Insignificant, trivial.

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Very young.

(of a sibling) Younger.

* 1871 October 18, The One-eyed Philosopher [pseudonym], "Street Corners", in Judy: or the London serio-comic journal , volume 9, page 255 [http://books.google.com/books?id=_B4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA255]:

If you want to find Little' France, take any turning on the north side of Leicester square, and wander in a zigzag fashion Oxford Streetwards. The ' Little is rather smokier and more squalid than the Great France upon the other side of the Manche.

* 2004 , Barry Miles, Zappa: A Biography , 2005 edition, ISBN 080214215X, page 5:

In the forties, hurdy-gurdy men could still be heard in all those East Coast cities with strong Italian neighbourhoods: New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston. A visit to Baltimore's Little Italy at that time was like a trip to Italy itself.

Small in amount or number, having few members.

Short in duration; brief.

a little sleep

Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.

* Tennyson

The long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise, / Because their natures are little .