1
: a small-scale figure of a human being used especially as a child's plaything
2
Examples of doll in a Sentence
My aunt collects porcelain dolls.
there was a row of dolls along the shelf in the bedroom
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Hannah Malach, WWD, 16 Jan. 2025
The film stars Jessica Biel as Linda, a woman who hires a babysitter to care for her baby who is actually a doll.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2025
Ari has recently been a big fan of a bald eagle puppet and baby dolls.
—Amirah Razman, Twin Cities, 11 Jan. 2025
There’s the doll a little girl loaned to the crew shooting the Elvis movie Follow That Dream in 1961.
—Pam Windsor, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Doll.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doll. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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doll
noun
ˈdäl 
ˈdȯl
1
: a small figure of a human being used especially as a child's plaything
2
a
: a pretty young woman
b
: an attractive person
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