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diminutive

C2 noun

diminutive /dɪˈmɪn.jə.tɪv/ nghĩa là từ giảm nhẹ

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  1. từ giảm nhẹ

    A word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.

    Booklet, the diminutive of book, means ‘small book’.

    But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.

    When we come to occupative names, we are again confronted by crowds of diminutives.

  2. hình nhỏ, hình mảnh

    The smallest, thinnest version of a traditional heraldic ordinary ("geometric shape on a shield"), often used to represent multiple instances of a charge or to modify a main, central, and larger charge; not itself modifiable.

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