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# puppet

«puppet» in Mova's school dictionary: **a toy figure of a person or animal that you move with…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a puppet, puppets)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A puppet is a toy figure of a person or animal that you move with your hand, strings or sticks to act out a show. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puppet/#m1)

2) A person or group controlled by someone else, who does what they are told. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puppet/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used at school in drama and crafts: making sock puppets, finger puppets and putting on a puppet show. In history: a "puppet ruler" is controlled by another country. Kinds: hand puppet, glove puppet, finger puppet, string puppet (marionette), shadow puppet.

### examples

- We made sock puppets in art. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puppet/#x1)
- The puppet show was very funny. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puppet/#x2)
- Pinocchio was a wooden puppet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puppet/#x3)
- She moved the puppet's mouth with her hand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puppet/#x4)
- Shadow puppets make shapes on the wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puppet/#x5)
- The string puppet danced across the stage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puppet/#x6)
- The king was only a puppet of the rich lords. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puppet/#x7)
- The puppet which plays so important a part in this story is worthy of a special examination. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puppet/#x8)

### note

Countable: a puppet. Person who works a puppet: a puppeteer. A string puppet is also called a marionette.

### In the corpora

- [In The Lion King musical the puppets are designed so you see both the actor and the animal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/27-theatre-stage-actors-backstage/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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