DOLL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does doll mean? 

• DOLL (noun)
  The noun DOLL has 2 senses:

1. a small replica of a person; used as a toy

2. informal terms for a (young) woman

  Familiarity information: DOLL used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOLL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small replica of a person; used as a toy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

doll; dolly

Hypernyms ("doll" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "doll"):

golliwog; golliwogg (a grotesque black doll)

kachina (a carved doll wearing the costume of a particular Pueblo spirit; usually presented to a child as a gift)

paper doll (a piece of paper cut or folded into the shape of a human being)

puppet (a doll with a hollow head of a person or animal and a cloth body; intended to fit over the hand and be manipulated with the fingers)

rag doll (a cloth doll that is stuffed and (usually) painted)

sawdust doll (a doll that is stuffed with sawdust)

toy soldier (a doll that resembles a soldier)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Informal terms for a (young) woman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bird; chick; dame; doll; skirt; wench

Hypernyms ("doll" is a kind of...):

fille; girl; miss; missy; young lady; young woman (a young female)

 Context examples 

A lace handkerchief, a plumy fan, and a bouquet in a shoulder holder finished her off, and Miss Belle surveyed her with the satisfaction of a little girl with a newly dressed doll.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I had bought a spotted wooden horse over-night as a parting gift to little Wilkins Micawber—that was the boy—and a doll for little Emma.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Then, what induced you to take charge of such a little doll as that?" (pointing to Adele).

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Also, there were horns, and dolls, and toys of various sorts, and parcels and bundles of candies and nuts that filled the arms of all the Silvas to overflowing.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She was fond of all boy's plays, and greatly preferred cricket not merely to dolls, but to the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

It's nothing but limes now, for everyone is sucking them in their desks in schooltime, and trading them off for pencils, bead rings, paper dolls, or something else, at recess.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She had seen David Copperfield out of the world, who was always running after wax dolls from his cradle.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Bessie had now finished dusting and tidying the room, and having washed her hands, she opened a certain little drawer, full of splendid shreds of silk and satin, and began making a new bonnet for Georgiana's doll.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

On the afternoon of the second day, she went out to do an errand, and give poor Joanna, the invalid doll, her daily exercise.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

My father had once been a favourite of hers, I believe; but she was mortally affronted by his marriage, on the ground that my mother was “a wax doll”.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)