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dolls' house

dolls' house is the alternative form of doll's house.

Meaning of doll's house

Noun

doll's house (plural doll's houses)

  1. (UK) A miniature house used by children as a toy for recreating domestic settings.
    • Adam Stockhausen's doll's-house production design is eye-wateringly precise, the black-and-white images of the city's ancient buildings (shot in Angouleme) deserve their own coffee table book2021 July 12, Nicholas Barber, “The French Dispatch: Four stars for Wes Anderson's latest”, in BBC
    Synonyms:
    playhouse
  2. (figuratively) A small, cramped, dwelling-place.
    • A slightly incongruous note is struck by the National Westminster Bank beside the Vine [pub], a tiny dolls' house of a building, about the size of a garden shed, in herringbone-patterned brick.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 202, about Goudhurst, Kent

Forms of dolls' house

pluraldolls' houses

Questions about dolls' house

What is dolls' house the alternative form of?
Dolls' house is the alternative form of doll's house.

Words near dolls' house in the dictionary

  1. dollops
  2. dollopy
  3. dolls
  4. Dolls Point
  5. dolls up
  6. dolls' house
  7. dolls' houses
  8. dollship
  9. dollshouse
  10. dollshouses
  11. dollu

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