Definitions for marionettes

marionettes mar·i·on·ette

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

Marionettes is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 1569 anagrams from letters in marionettes (aeeimnorstt).

Definitions for marionettes

noun

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

Origin of marionettes

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

Examples for marionettes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for marionettes
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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