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DOLL'S HOUSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does doll's house mean? 

DOLL'S HOUSE (noun)
  The noun DOLL'S HOUSE has 2 senses:

1. a house so small that it is likened to a child's playthingplay

2. a small model of a house used as a toy by childrenplay

  Familiarity information: DOLL'S HOUSE used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DOLL'S HOUSE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A house so small that it is likened to a child's plaything

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

doll's house; dollhouse

Hypernyms ("doll's house" is a kind of...):

house (a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A small model of a house used as a toy by children

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

doll's house; dollhouse

Hypernyms ("doll's house" is a kind of...):

plaything; toy (an artifact designed to be played with)


 Context examples 


Having spread the quilt and folded my night-dress, I went to the window-seat to put in order some picture-books and doll's house furniture scattered there; an abrupt command from Georgiana to let her playthings alone (for the tiny chairs and mirrors, the fairy plates and cups, were her property) stopped my proceedings; and then, for lack of other occupation, I fell to breathing on the frost-flowers with which the window was fretted, and thus clearing a space in the glass through which I might look out on the grounds, where all was still and petrified under the influence of a hard frost.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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