doll's house

See also: dollshouse and dolls' house

English

doll's house

Noun

doll's house (plural doll's houses)

1. (UK) A miniature house used by children as a toy for recreating domestic settings.
   • 2021 July 12, Nicholas Barber, “The French Dispatch: Four stars for Wes Anderson's latest”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     Adam Stockhausen's doll's-house production design is eye-wateringly precise, the black-and-white images of the city's ancient buildings (shot in Angouleme) deserve their own coffee table book

2. (figurative) A small, cramped, dwelling-place.
   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 202, about Goudhurst, Kent:

     A slightly incongruous note is struck by the National Westminster Bank beside the Vine [pub], a tiny dolls' house of a building, about the size of a garden shed, in herringbone-patterned brick.

Alternative forms

• dolls' house, dollshouse, dollhouse

Hypernyms

• house

Translations

miniature house for dolls

• Afrikaans: pophuis
• Catalan: casa de nines f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 玩具房子 (wánjù fángzi), 玩偶之家 (zh) (wán'ǒu zhī jiā), 玩具屋 (wánjù wū)

• Danish: dukkehus (da) n
• Dutch: poppenhuis (nl) n
• Esperanto: pupdomo
• Estonian: nukumaja
• Faroese: dukkuhús n
• Finnish: nukkekoti (fi), nukketalo (fi)
• French: maison de poupée (fr) f
• German: Puppenstube (de) f, Puppenhaus (de) n
• Greek: κουκλόσπιτο (el) n (kouklóspito)
• Hungarian: babaház (hu)
• Icelandic: dúkkuhús n
• Italian: casa di bambole f
• Japanese: 人形の家 (にんぎょうのいえ, ningyō no ie), ドールハウス (ja) (dōruhausu)
• Kazakh: қуыршақ үй (quyrşaq üi)
• Korean: 인형의 집 (inhyeong'ui jip)
• Maranao: balabalay
• Polish: domek dla lalek m
• Portuguese: casa de bonecas/boneca f
• Russian: ку́кольный до́мик m (kúkolʹnyj dómik)
• Spanish: casa de muñecas f
• Swedish: dockhus (sv) n, dockskåp (sv) n
• Telugu: బొమ్మరిల్లు (te) (bommarillu)
• Turkish: oyungaç ev (regional), oyuncak ev
• Welsh: tŷ dol m

See also

• doll's pram

Anagrams

• dollhouses