MANIKIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does manikin mean? 

• MANIKIN (noun)
  The noun MANIKIN has 3 senses:

1. a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal

2. a woman who wears clothes to display fashions

3. a life-size dummy used to display clothes

  Familiarity information: MANIKIN used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANIKIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

homunculus; manikin; mannikin

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

small person (a person of below average size)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A woman who wears clothes to display fashions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

fashion model; manakin; manikin; mannequin; mannikin; model

Context example:

she was too fat to be a mannequin

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

assistant; help; helper; supporter (a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose)

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

supermodel (a fashion model who has attained the status of a celebrity)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A life-size dummy used to display clothes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

form; manakin; manikin; mannequin; mannikin

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

dummy (a figure representing the human form)

 Context examples 

But unseen by the king, the manikin was standing beside him when he said that, and heard all.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Damn them, all of them, the crass manikins!

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As soon as the soldier was alone again, he lighted his pipe and summoned the black manikin.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

When twelve o’clock had struck, the door sprang open, and the manikin carried in the princess.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

When the first cock crowed, the manikin carried her back to the royal palace, and laid her in her bed.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Round went the wheel again to the old song, and the manikin once more spun the heap into gold.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The manikin said: “That is an easy thing for me to do, but a very dangerous thing for you, for if it is discovered, you will fare ill.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Then the manikin fell on them like lightning, darting this way and that way, and whosoever was so much as touched by his cudgel fell to earth, and did not venture to stir again.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Then the soldier pulled out his pipe and lighted it at the blue light, and as soon as a few wreaths of smoke had ascended, the manikin was there with a small cudgel in his hand, and said: What does my lord command?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The black manikin heard this plot, and at night when the soldier again ordered him to bring the princess, revealed it to him, and told him that he knew of no expedient to counteract this stratagem, and that if the shoe were found in the soldier’s house it would go badly with him.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)