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MANIKIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A life-size dummy used to display clothes
Synonyms:
form; manakin; manikin; mannequin; mannikin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("manikin" is a kind of...):
dummy (a figure representing the human form)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A woman who wears clothes to display fashions
Example:
she was too fat to be a mannequin
Synonyms:
fashion model; manakin; manikin; mannequin; mannikin; model
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("manikin" is a kind of...):
assistant; help; helper; supporter (a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "manikin"):
supermodel (a fashion model who has attained the status of a celebrity)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal
Synonyms:
homunculus; manikin; mannikin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("manikin" is a kind of...):
small person (a person of below average size)
Context examples:
When it was ready and the soldier had taken possession of it, he summoned the little black manikin and said: I have served the king faithfully, but he has dismissed me, and left me to hunger, and now I want to take my revenge.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
At night when the sleeping princess was again carried through the streets, some peas certainly did fall out of her pocket, but they made no track, for the crafty manikin had just before scattered peas in every street there was.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
