TOM THUMB

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• TOM THUMB (noun)
  The noun TOM THUMB has 2 senses:

1. an imaginary hero of English folklore who was no taller than his father's thumb

2. a very small person

  Familiarity information: TOM THUMB used as a noun is rare.

• TOM THUMB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An imaginary hero of English folklore who was no taller than his father's thumb

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

imaginary being; imaginary creature (a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A very small person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Tom Thumb" is a kind of...):

small person (a person of below average size)

 Context examples 

Then Tom Thumb, seeing his father, cried out, “See, father, here I am with the cart, all right and safe! now take me down!”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)