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MARIONETTE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does marionette mean?
• MARIONETTE (noun)
The noun MARIONETTE has 1 sense:
1. a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer
Familiarity information: MARIONETTE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
marionette; puppet
Hypernyms ("marionette" is a kind of...):
figure (a model of a bodily form (especially of a person))
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