Definitions for hobbit
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1. hobbitnoun

   an imaginary being similar to a person but smaller and with hairy feet; invented by J.R.R. Tolkien

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1. hobbitnoun

   A fictional race of small humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feet.

2. hobbitnoun

   A member of any race of small humans or hominids.

3. hobbitnoun

   A Welsh unit of weight, equal to four Welsh pecks, or 168 pounds

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1. Hobbit

   Hobbits are a fictional race of people in the novels of J. R. R. Tolkien. About half average human height, Tolkien presented hobbits as a variety of humanity, or close relatives thereof. Occasionally known as halflings in Tolkien's writings, they live barefooted, and dwell in homely underground houses which have windows, as they are typically built into the sides of hills. Their feet have naturally tough leathery soles (so they do not need shoes) and are covered on top with curly hair. Hobbits first appeared in the 1937 children's novel The Hobbit, whose titular hobbit is the protagonist Bilbo Baggins, who is thrown into an unexpected adventure involving a dragon. In its sequel, The Lord of the Rings, the hobbits Frodo Baggins, Sam Gamgee, Pippin Took, and Merry Brandybuck are primary characters who all play key roles in fighting to save their world ("Middle-earth") from evil. In The Hobbit, hobbits live together in a small town called Hobbiton, which in The Lord of the Rings is identified as being part of a larger rural region called the Shire, the homeland of the hobbits in the northwest of Middle-earth. They also live in a village east of the Shire, called Bree, where they co-exist with regular humans. Tolkien hints that there may be other hobbit settlements thereabouts, but they are never visited in the story. The origins of the name and idea of "hobbits" have been debated; literary antecedents include Sinclair Lewis's 1922 novel Babbitt, and Edward Wyke Smith's 1927 The Marvellous Land of Snergs. There is a possible connection with old names for ghostly creatures, which include bogles, hobbits, and hobgoblins. Tolkien emphatically rejected a relationship with rabbits, and emphasized hobbits' humanity, though later scholars have noted several lines of evidence to the contrary. Halflings appear as a race in Dungeons & Dragons, the original name hobbits being later avoided for legal reasons. The usage has been taken up by fantasy authors including Terry Brooks, Jack Vance, and Clifford D. Simak.

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1. hobbit

   A hobbit is a fictional, small human-like creature characterized by their hairy feet and peaceful rural lifestyle, which was invented by British author J.R.R Tolkien in his fantasy novels like "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" series. They are known for living in underground homes in a part of the world called "The Shire" and generally have a penchant for a quiet, unadventurous life.

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1. Hobbit

   Hobbits are a fictional diminutive humanoid race who inhabit the lands of Middle-earth in J. R. R. Tolkien's fiction. Hobbits first appeared in the novel The Hobbit, in which the main protagonist, Bilbo Baggins, is the titular hobbit. The novel The Lord of the Rings includes more Hobbits as major characters, Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, Peregrin Took and Meriadoc Brandybuck, as well as several other minor hobbit characters. Hobbits are also briefly mentioned in The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales. According to the author in the prologue to The Lord of the Rings, Hobbits are "relatives" of the race of Men. Elsewhere Tolkien describes Hobbits as a "variety" or separate "branch" of humans. Within the story, Hobbits and other races seem aware of the similarities. However, within the story, Hobbits considered themselves a separate people. At the time of the events in The Lord of the Rings, Hobbits lived in the Shire and in Bree in the north west of Middle-earth, though by the end, some had moved out to the Tower Hills and to Gondor and Rohan.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of hobbit in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of hobbit in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of hobbit in a Sentence

1. Ali Hughson:

   When I was around 13 I read ‘The Hobbit,’ and then watched the ‘Lord of the Rings’ movies when they got released, i always liked the idea of the hobbit's houses, the whole idea of being underground and surrounded by nature is cozy.

2. Paul Dergarabedian:

   Awareness is through the roof, people went out to the theaters and made an event out of it. They're going to be talking about this for a long time. That's a very interesting and unusual phenomenon that's usually reserved for films like 'The Hobbit' or 'Star Wars.'.

3. Peter Jackson:

   Every time you make a movie it's like going to film school, so if I make a' Tintin' film next year or the year after it will be a different movie to what I would have made before' The Hobbit', the best films of any director's career should be the ones just when he's old enough to be old but before he gets a little bit vague.

4. Rory Bruer:

   It was bold to go into this territory with ‘ Night at the Museum ’ and ‘ The Hobbit, ’ but there’s something special about ‘ Annie,' we knew the picture itself would be the best marketing told and we think that the word-of-mouth is going to spread.

5. J. R .R. Tolkien:

   I am in fact a Hobbit, in all but size.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=hobbit
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hobbit
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobbit
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=hobbit
6. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hobbit