[
US
/ˈbæntəm/
]
[ UK /bˈɑːntæm/ ]
[ UK /bˈɑːntæm/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
very small
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diminutive in stature
her petite figure
tiny feet
a lilliputian chest of drawers
NOUN
- any of various small breeds of fowl
How To Use bantam In A Sentence
- Poor bantam building block, what had you ever done since the beginning of time and space to deserve such shabby treatment?
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- It appeared some part of him was compiling a case where the facts had to sway just one man, Rebus Bantam, his own harsh judge and unappeasable jury.
- This shaves an impressive 4 oz of weight from the bantamweight pistol, which only tips the scales at 24 oz empty, with the mag.
- The bantams have been giving me strange looks recently, and a small robin is trying to nest in our bedroom (totally ignored by the cat).
- After the Games he turned pro and was later ranked eighth amongst the world's best bantamweights.
- There is an abundance of native birds living alongside badgers, deer and the marauding foxes which cleared out the bantams of a previous tenant.
- Out back were the Vietnamese pheasants and bantams that Kilroy-Silk breeds.
- He dropped to flyweight in 1974 and four years later returned to bantamweight to win another gold medal.
- The black family would let me come look at their particolored chickens—bantams, Dominickers—scratching around uncooped in their precisely raked dirt yard. Dream State