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dollhouse

dollhouse

16 1.0
A small model of a house with tiny furniture for children to play with
  • noun
  • /ˈdɑːlhaʊs/
translation icon : casa de muñecas
  • Every weekend, we spend hours decorating the dollhouse with miniature dishes and dolls.

I'm just going to take this dollhouse home for my wife.

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Examples

  • Poppy finding a dollhouse of her own.

  • I've been painting the exterior of the dollhouse off and on, and I've finally finished.

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  • Do you want to play dollhouse with me?

  • Did you have a dollhouse when you were little?

  • Then I bought a dollhouse for the birthday of the younger one.

  • I mean, look at this dollhouse.

  • What I'd like you to do is bring her a dollhouse this year.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • I just asked my 6-year-old if he wants to decorate a dollhouse with me, and he is very enthusiastic.

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  • I found an unfinished hand-made wooden dollhouse for 3 dollars at a resale shop and completely renovated it!

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  • My daughter plays with her dollhouse every afternoon after school.

Synonyms

doll's house
vsdollhouse
  • Baby Talk
1 2.1

A small model house with tiny furniture that children play with using dolls

is the single-word modern form used for the same toy model

How Big

clubhouse
86 2.3
playhouse
31 2.3
dollhouse
16 1.0

Surface Forms

dollhouse singular
dollhouses plural

Morphology

dollhouse = doll + house (transparent) = doll + house

The meaning is a literal compound of 'doll' + 'house' referring to a small model house used as a toy.

Etymology

Dollhouse comes from the two simple words doll ('a child's toy') and house ('home'). So it is literally a 'home for dolls' — a small, furnished model that children play with.