doll's house

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doll's house

noun doll's houses · dolls' house · dollshouse · dollhouse

  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 book

    Similar: 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.

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noun miniature house for dolls

Españolcasa de muñecas
한국어인형의 집 inhyeong-ui jip, 돌하우스 dolhauseu
日本語人形の家 ningyō no ie, ドールハウス dōruhausu
中文玩具房子 wánjù fángzi, 玩偶之家 wán'ǒu zhī jiā, 玩具屋 wánjù wū
हिन्दीघरौंदा gharaundā
Portuguêscasa de bonecas/boneca
Françaismaison de poupée
DeutschPuppenstube, Puppenhaus
Italianocasa di bambole
Ελληνικάκουκλόσπιτο kouklóspito
Русскийку́кольный до́мик kúkolʹnyj dómik

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@misc{doll_s_house_2026,
  title = {doll's house},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/doll's%20house},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}