manikin

manikin

noun

Definition of MANIKIN

1

a three-dimensional representation of the human body used especially for displaying clothes <the store has manikins so lifelike that they have startled me on more than one occasion>

Synonyms dummy, figure, form, manikin (also mannikin)

Related Words doll

2

a person who poses with or wears merchandise (as clothes) often for pictorial advertising <the undulating movements of the manikins as they strutted down the catwalk>

Synonyms manikin (also mannikin), mannequin

Related Words figure, form; doll, dummy; spokesmodel, supermodel

Variants of MANIKIN

manikin also mannikin