mannequin

1. 1.

   a woman who wears clothes to display fashions

   “she was too fat to be a mannequin”

   Synonymsmanikinmannikinmanakinfashion modelmodel

   Broaderassistant

   Narrowersupermodel
2. 2.

   a life-size dummy used to display clothes

   Synonymsmanikinmannikinmanakinform

   Broaderdummy

Other forms of mannequin

plural

mannequins·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mannequin

What does mannequin mean?

mannequin means "a woman who wears clothes to display fashions". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mannequin?

mannequin has 3 syllables: man-neq-uin. The stress falls on "man". In IPA it is /ˈmænəkɪn/.

What is another word for mannequin?

Close synonyms include manikin, mannikin, manakin, fashion model, model. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mannequin a common word?

mannequin is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.