miniature

Meanings

Noun

• Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
• A small version of something; a model of reduced scale.
• A small, highly detailed painting, a portrait miniature.
• The art of painting such highly detailed miniature works.
• An illustration in an illuminated manuscript.
• A musical composition which is short in duration.
• A chess game which is concluded with very few moves.
• A token in a game representing a unit or character.
• Lettering in red; rubric distinction.
• A particular feature or trait.

Adjective

• Smaller than normal.

Verb

• To make smaller than normal; to reproduce in miniature.

Origin

• Borrowed from Italian miniatura ("manuscript illumination"), from miniare, from Latin miniō, from minium.