doll
UK/dɒl//dɑl/
doll noun: a small figure resembling a human being that is used as a toy. Also the obsolete form of dal.
Noun (1)
doll (plural dolls or (Internet slang) dollz)
- A small figure resembling a human being that is used as a toy.
- "A thousand dollars are money, my father used to say when he drove fat oxen to market," replied John Wilde, in a mocking tone; "but it will not leave my hands for that shabby price; and, for my own part, it may ornament the foot of my daughter's doll."1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 316
- An attractive young woman.
- Some fine day we may have the country raised, and the gendarmes down upon us from Strasburg, and all owing to your pretty doll, with her cunning ways of coming over you.1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman
- A transgender woman or transfeminine person, especially one that has a highly sexual and feminine personal style.
- A transgender woman or transfeminine person, in general.
- A term of endearment
- Heading home from a party, two hipsters, completely stoned, pause to snuggle on a park bench. A fire engine roars by, bells clanging, sirens screaming. The boy flips. “Solid, doll,” he murmurs, “they’re playing our song!”1952 September 29, “"BOP VOCABULARY" section, inside of "That Crazy Bop Joke Craze"”, in LIFE Magazine, New York, U.S., page 69
- "They didn't sell cigarettes where you were, doll?" Palmer asked.2008, Stephen King, Willa
- Synonyms:
- darling, sweetheart
- A good-natured, cooperative or helpful person.
- Won't you be a doll and fetch me a glass of water?
- Ow! These things are defective. Pipsqueak, be a doll, I need a new pair, pronto!2017, “Skate-lebrity”, in The ZhuZhus, spoken by Chunk
- The smallest or pet pig in a litter.
- A short signal post mounted on a bracket mounted on the main signal post, or on a signal gantry.
- The signals are on a three-doll bracket post; one doll carries two [signal] arms, one above the other.1943 March and April, “Notes and News: Peculiar Distant Signals on L.N.E.R”, in Railway Magazine, page 116
- A barbiturate or amphetamine pill.
- Each night she looked at the bottle of Seconals with affection. She never could do this without the dolls. She would have spent sleepless nights, smoking, worrying—and she would have lost her nerve.1966, Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls, page 227
- A pixel art depiction of a person, typically customized from a base template.
Verb (1)
doll (third-person singular simple present dolls, present participle dolling, simple past and past participle dolled)
Noun (2)
doll (plural dolls)
- A temporary barrier used in horse racing.
- On a beautiful spring morning, after the “dolls and chains” had been removed to allow the horses room to pass through, in galloping “across the flat,” […]1885, William Day, The Racehorse in Training, page 87
Verb (2)
doll (third-person singular simple present dolls, present participle dolling, simple past and past participle dolled)
- To place a barrier in front of (a section of the course that is to be omitted from a horse race).
Noun (3)
doll (plural dolls)
Verb (3)
doll (third-person singular simple present dolls, present participle dolling, simple past and past participle dolled)
Proper noun capitalized: Doll
Doll
- A township and rural village in Sutherland, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NC8803).
- A diminutive of the female given name Dorothy.
- O! run, Doll, run; run, good Doll.c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […]...
- A surname.
Also used as
doll is also the obsolete form of dal.
doll meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
doll in Hindi
- a toy in the form of a human
- गुड़िया guṛiyā, पुतली putlī, गुड्डा guḍḍā
doll in Tamil
- a toy in the form of a human
- பொம்மை pommai
doll in Marathi
- a toy in the form of a human
- बाहुली bāhulī
doll in Urdu
- a toy in the form of a human
- گُڑِیا guṛiyā, پُتْلِی putlī
More languagesFewer languages
- doll in Bengali
- পুতুল putul
- doll in Telugu
- బొమ్మ bomma
- doll in Malayalam
- പാവ pāva
- doll in Kannada
- ಗೊಂಬೆ gombe
- doll in Punjabi
- ਗੁਲਾਬੀ gulābī, ਪੁਤਲੀ putlī
- doll in Gujarati
- ઢીંગલી ḍhī̃glī, ઢબૂડી ḍhabūḍī, પૂતળી pūtaḷī
- doll in Odia
- କଣ୍ଢାଇ kaṇḍhāi
- doll in Sanskrit
- पाञ्चालिका pāñcālikā
- doll in Sinhala
- බෝනික්කා bōnikkā
- doll in Assamese
- পুতলা putola
- doll in Nepali
- गुडिया guḍiyā, पुतली putlī
- doll in Pashto
- نانځکه nānjᶕka, کوڅکه kocaka, ګودۍ godəy, ګوډۍ goḍǝy
- doll in Tagalog
- manika, tataw
- doll in Arabic
- دُمْيَة dumya
- doll in Malay
- anak patung, boneka, anak-anakan
- doll in Indonesian
- boneka
- doll in Thai
- ตุ๊กตา dtúk-gà-dtaa
- doll in Vietnamese
- búp bê
- doll in Myanmar
- အရုပ် a.rup
Examples of doll in a sentence
- It was weird for him to watch boys play with Barbie dolls.
- Boyz are always trouble, while girlz just play with their Bratz dolls.
- The small girl persistently asked her father to buy her the doll.
Synonyms of doll
Forms of doll
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | dolls |
| plural Internet | dollz |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | dolls |
| present participle | dolling |
| past participle | dolled |
| past | dolled |
Origin of doll
From Doll, pet form of the given name Dorothy. Etymology 1, noun sense 7 was coined and popularized by American writer Jacqueline Susann in 1966 through her book Valley of the Dolls (1966) and the film adaptation Valley of the Dolls (1967).
Probably variant of archaic dool (“boundary marker”).
Clipping of dollar.
Words formed from doll
- action doll
- apple doll
- babushka doll
- baby doll
- baby doll dress
- baby-doll dress
- bisque doll
- blood doll
- blow-up doll
- bobble-head doll syndrome
- Bobo doll
- Chase doll
- China doll
- corn doll
- Dharma doll
- dolldom
- dollface
- dollhood
- dollhouse
- doll's house
- dollified
- dollish
- dollkind
- doll-less
- doll-like
- dollmaker
- dollmaking
- dollship
- doll's pram
- doll up
- dolly
- Dutch doll
- fashion doll
- frankendoll
- fuckdoll
- glove doll
- harvest doll
- honeydoll
- Ken doll
- kewpie doll
- love doll
- matrioshka doll
- matryoshka doll
- nesting doll
- nutcracker doll
- paper doll
- Paris doll
- pincushion doll
- porcelain doll
- rag doll
- rapedoll
- Russian doll
- sex doll
- voodoo doll
- Waldorf doll
- wax doll
Phrases with doll
Words that rhyme with doll
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Questions about doll
- What does doll mean?
- Doll means a small figure resembling a human being that is used as a toy.
- What is doll in Hindi?
- Doll in Hindi is गुड़िया (guṛiyā), पुतली (putlī), गुड्डा (guḍḍā). See Doll meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is doll?
- Doll can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce doll?
- Doll is pronounced /dɒl/ (UK).
- What is the plural of doll?
- The plural of doll is dolls.
Words near doll in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: doll (page history and authors); Doll (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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