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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 plaything
2. a small model of a house used as a toy by children
Familiarity information: DOLL'S HOUSE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A house so small that it is likened to a child's plaything
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
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:
Hypernyms ("doll's house" is a kind of...):
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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