[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/dwarf.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/) / dwarf

[← D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/D/)

# dwarf

«dwarf» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small, strong, often bearded creature who lives in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a dwarf, dwarfs or dwarves); adjective (dwarf = much smaller than usual); verb (dwarf, dwarfs, dwarfed, dwarfing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In fairy tales and fantasy, a dwarf is a small, strong, often bearded creature who lives in mountains and mines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dwarf/#m1)

2) As an adjective, dwarf means a much smaller kind of something: a dwarf tree, a dwarf planet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dwarf/#m2)

3) To dwarf something means to make it look very small by being much bigger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dwarf/#m3)

4) Dwarfism is a medical condition in which a person grows to a short height. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dwarf/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, dwarfs appear in «Snow White» and fantasy books, digging for gold. In science lessons Pluto is a dwarf planet, and a white dwarf is a small, dying star; gardeners grow dwarf apple trees. In everyday writing, «the skyscraper dwarfed the houses» means it made them look tiny. Phrases: «dwarf planet», «white dwarf», «red dwarf», «dwarfed by».

### examples

- Snow White lived with seven dwarfs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dwarf/#x1)
- Pluto is now called a dwarf planet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dwarf/#x2)
- A white dwarf is the hot core left after a star dies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dwarf/#x3)
- We planted a dwarf apple tree in a pot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dwarf/#x4)
- The giant ship dwarfed the little boats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dwarf/#x5)
- In the story the dwarves mined for gold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dwarf/#x6)
- Dwarf rabbits are very small pets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dwarf/#x7)
- The mountains dwarfed our tent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dwarf/#x8)

### note

Plural: «dwarfs» (standard, science) or «dwarves» (fantasy books). Respect: for real people with dwarfism, many prefer «a person of short stature» or «a little person»; using «dwarf» as a joke is hurtful. A dwarf planet orbits the Sun but has not cleared its path of other objects.

### In the corpora

- [In Kenya, hornbills and dwarf mongooses team up: the birds catch insects the mongooses disturb and call out warnings of hawks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu/15/)
- [In some caves dwarf crocodiles have turned orange, possibly from living among bat droppings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/8/)
- [The Jaragua dwarf gecko of the Caribbean is one of the smallest reptiles, small enough to curl up on a coin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs/12/)
- [In 2006 astronomers reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet after finding other similar objects, and some scientists still argue about it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/14-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-stars/11/)
- [Pluto was called a planet until 2006, when astronomers made it a dwarf planet, so books printed before then list nine planets.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/28-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dwarf» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dwarf/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.