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Definition of "dollhouse" [dollhouse]

  • A small model house used as a children's toy or to display miniature dolls and furniture. (noun)
  • A house so small that it is likened to a toy house. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "dollhouse" in a sentence
  • "The Japanese style dollhouse is the latest addition to Sanwa supply's growing papercraft collection."
  • "For all I know, chicken dollhouse is at the ATM wearing a saliva hammock."
  • "A Kodak mother here photographing her daughter playing with her dollhouse could be a work by Laurie Simmons; it lacks only the feminist quotation marks."