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# plaything

«plaything» in Mova's school dictionary: **a toy, or a thing that is used for fun** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plaything, playthings)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A plaything is a toy, or a thing that is used for fun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plaything/#m1)

2) (figurative) A plaything can be a person or thing that is treated as a toy and used by others, with no say of their own. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plaything/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a child's toy is a plaything; a grown-up may say someone was the plaything of fate or luck, meaning pushed about by chance

### examples

- You may have it for a plaything. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plaything/#x1)
- I take care of all the playthings the children have loved. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plaything/#x2)
- He felt he was only the plaything of fortune. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plaything/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «plaything» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plaything/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.