Dwarf or dwarves may refer to:

Common uses

Dwarf (folklore) A dwarf () is a type of supernatural being in Germanic folklore, including mythology. Accounts of dwarfs vary significantly throughout history however they are commonly, but not exclusively, presented as living in mountains or stones and being ski ...

, a being from Germanic mythology and folklore * Dwarf, a person or animal with

dwarfism Dwarfism is a condition wherein an organism is exceptionally small, and mostly occurs in the animal kingdom. In humans, it is sometimes defined as an adult height of less than , regardless of sex; the average adult height among people with dw ...

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

* Dwarf (''Dungeons & Dragons''), a humanoid race * Dwarf (Middle-earth), a humanoid race in J. R. R. Tolkien's literature * Dwarf (''Warhammer''), a humanoid race * Dwarfs (''Discworld''), a race of characters * Dwarves (''Artemis Fowl''), a race of characters * Dwarves (''Warcraft''), a short, strong race *

Dwarves (Marvel Comics) There are different types of fictional dwarves appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The most common of the Dwarves are the ones that are based on the dwarves of Norse mythology. They frequently appear in stories featurin ...

Literature

* ''The Dwarf'' (Cho novel), a 1978 novel by Cho Se-hui * ''The Dwarf'' (Lagerkvist novel), a 1944 novel by Pär Lagerkvist

Other arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Dwarfs?!'' (video game) * Dwarves (band), American punk band * Killer Dwarfs, Canadian heavy metal band * Wrocław's dwarfs, small sculptures in Wrocław, Poland

Biology

* Phyletic dwarfism, an average decrease in size of animals ** Insular dwarfism, a evolutionary condition caused by genetic and environmental factors (e.g. no / little predators and smaller geography)

Cosmology

* Dwarf galaxy, in cosmology * Dwarf planet, in cosmology

Other uses

* Dwarf, Kentucky * DWARF, a debugging data format *

PYGMIES + DWARFS arguments In anthropology, pygmy peoples are ethnic groups whose average height is unusually short. The term pygmyism is used to describe the phenotype of endemic short stature (as opposed to disproportionate dwarfism occurring in isolated cases in a po ...