Definitions for marionette

marionette mar·i·on·ette

Spelling: [mar-ee-uh-net]
IPA: /ˌmær i əˈnɛt/

Marionette is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 700 anagrams from letters in marionette (aeeimnortt).

Definitions for marionette

noun

  1. a puppet manipulated from above by strings attached to its jointed limbs.

Origin of marionette

1610-20; French marionnette, equivalent to Marion (diminutive of Marie Mary) + -ette -ette

Examples for marionette

But the marionette show was only the beginning of the party.

I should like to do so,” the marionette answered, “for it is our last meeting.

He would not willingly destroy the self-respect even of a marionette.

He had gone on to such projects as a 28-foot marionette for the 1965 Balanchine production of Don Quixote.

She's wearing a pink dress and is just about as tall as a marionette.

If all these fail how can a marionette be expected to succeed?

Meanwhile, a boy behind him got up on the bench, and began to play the marionette.

You do not seem to be aware of the identity of the marionette who has just been killed.

How did anyone know we were going to have a marionette show?

Have you ever been on a film and felt manipulated by a director, sort of like a marionette?

Word Value for marionette
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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