marionette

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: mar=i=on=ette

CIDE DICTIONARY

marionette, n. [F. marionette, prop. a dim. of Marie Mary.].

•  A puppet moved by strings, as in a puppet show.  [1913 Webster]
•  The buffel duck.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

marionette, n. a puppet worked by strings.

Etymology

F marionnette f. Marion dimin. of Marie Mary

THESAURUS

marionette

agate, ball, baseball bat, bat, battledore, bauble, blocks, bust, carving, checkerboard, chessboard, club, cockhorse, cricket bat, cue, doll, doll carriage, dolly, dummy, fantoccini, figure, figurehead, figurine, gewgaw, gimcrack, gingerbread man, golf club, hobbyhorse, jack-in-the-box, jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, kickshaw, knickknack, lay figure, man of straw, manikin, mannequin, marble, mig, model, monument, paper doll, pick-up sticks, pinwheel, plaything, portrait bust, puppet, racket, rag doll, rocking horse, scarecrow, sculpture, snowman, sport, statuary, statue, statuette, steelie, taw, teetotum, top, toy, toy soldier, trinket, wax figure, waxwork, whim-wham, wood carving

ROGET THESAURUS

marionette

Representation

N representation, representment, imitation, illustration, delineation, depictment, imagery, portraiture, iconography, design, designing, art, fine arts, painting, sculpture, engraving, photography, cinematography, radiography, autoradiography, fluorography, sciagraphy, personation, personification, impersonation, drama, picture, photo, photograph, daguerreotype, snapshot, X-ray photo, movie film, movie, tracing, scan, TV image, video image, image file, graphics, computer graphics, televideo, closed-circuit TV, copy, drawing, sketch, drought, draft, plot, chart, figure, scheme, image, likeness, icon, portrait, striking likeness, speaking likeness, very image, effigy, facsimile, figure, figure head, puppet, doll, figurine, aglet, manikin, lay- figure, model, mammet, marionette, fantoccini, waxwork, bust, statue, statuette, ideograph, hieroglyphic, anaglyph, kanji, diagram, monogram, map, plan, chart, ground plan, projection, elevation (plan), ichnography, cartography, atlas, outline, scheme, view, radiograph, scotograph, sciagraph, spectrogram, heliogram, represent, representing, representative, illustrative, represented, imitative, figurative, iconic, like, graphic, cinquecento quattrocento, trecento.

VB copy, drawing, sketch, drought, draft, plot, chart, figure, scheme, image, likeness, icon, portrait, striking likeness, speaking likeness, very image, effigy, facsimile, figure, figure head, puppet, doll, figurine, aglet, manikin, lay- figure, model, mammet, marionette, fantoccini, waxwork, bust, statue, statuette, ideograph, hieroglyphic, anaglyph, kanji, diagram, monogram, map, plan, chart, ground plan, projection, elevation (plan), ichnography, cartography, atlas, outline, scheme, view, radiograph, scotograph, sciagraph, spectrogram, heliogram, V, represent, delineate, depict, depicture, portray, take a likeness, catch a likeness, hit off, photograph, daguerreotype, snapshot, figure, shadow forth, shadow out, adumbrate, body forth, describe, trace, copy, mold, dress up, illustrate, symbolize, paint, carve, engrave, personate, personify, impersonate, assume a character, pose as, act, play, mimic, hold the mirror up to nature.