Puppet

Quick meaning: Puppet is a noun meaning Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove.

Meaning

Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) A person, country, etc, controlled by another.
2. (engineering) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.
3. (transitive, also figuratively) To control or manipulate like a puppet.
4. (obsolete) A poppet; a small image in the human form; a doll.

Example Sentences

These men , from no worse motive that could be discovered than a thirst after knowledge beyond their sphere , committed burglary upon the barn in which the puppets had been consigned to repose

Every act of a Roman, from birth to death, from dawn to night, was controlled and supervised by some presiding deity. Man was thus virtually a symbolic puppet in the hands of the Roman pantheon.

Word Forms

• puppets
• puppeting
• puppeted

Synonyms for puppet

Depending on context, synonyms include monkey, creature, sport, tool, marionette.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include marionette, tool, creature, puppetry, doll, counterfeit.

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