puppet

1. 1.

   a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer

   Synonymsmarionette

   Broaderfigure
2. 2.

   a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else

   Synonymscreaturetool

   Broaderslave
3. 3.

   a doll with a hollow head of a person or animal and a cloth body; intended to fit over the hand and be manipulated with the fingers

   Broaderdoll

   Narrowerhand puppet

Other forms of puppet

plural

puppets·

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 puppet

What does puppet mean?

puppet means "a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in puppet?

puppet has 2 syllables: pup-pet. The stress falls on "pup". In IPA it is /ˈpʌpət/.

What is another word for puppet?

Close synonyms include marionette, creature, tool. 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 puppet a common word?

puppet is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.