miniature Definition

miniature
noun

1. A small copy, model or breed of anything.
2a. A very small painting, especially a portrait on a very small scale;
2b. The genre of painting that includes such pictures.
3. Manuscript illumination.

adj

1. Minute or small-scale; referring to the nature of a miniature.

Thesaurus: little, minute, diminutive, small, tiny, midget, pygmy, reduced, toy, scaled-down, dwarf, Lilliputian; Antonym: giant.

Derivative: miniaturist
noun

An artist who paints miniatures.

Idiom: in miniature

On a small scale.

Etymology: 16c: from Italian miniatura, from Latin, from miniare to illuminate (a manuscript), or to use red paint for printing, illuminating, etc, from minium red lead.