variants or less commonly doll's house or dolls' house
1
: a child's small-scale toy house
2
: a dwelling so small as to suggest a house for dolls

Examples of dollhouse in a Sentence

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Adults must crawl through doorways, buildings look like dollhouses and dwarf goats and donkeys hunker in the animal section. John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 13 July 2026 Also on one of the tables was a dollhouse, meant to represent the equally alarming rise in housing prices. S.e. Cupp, New York Daily News, 25 June 2026 She’s trapped in her own dollhouse. Daniel D'addario, Variety, 10 June 2026 We’re left with Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) all alone in her modern-day brothel — a dollhouse filled with shiny things and zero substance — and Lexi (Maude Apatow) once again taking the moral high ground without fully grasping why. Ben Travers, IndieWire, 1 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for dollhouse

Word History

First Known Use

1783, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of dollhouse was in 1783

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“Dollhouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dollhouse. Accessed 21 Jul. 2026.

Kids Definition

dollhouse

noun
: a child's small toy house
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