Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To control (a puppet).

  2. (figuratively, transitive)To control (an event, person, or organization) from behind the scenes.

Examples

5 sentences

  1. Puppeteers are dying in an immensely fast rate in Russia.

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  2. Puppeteers control the huge beasts from backstage, sending directional instructions by remote control.

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  3. Miguel is a town puppeteer.

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  4. The Puppeteer aliens in Larry Niven's Known Space sci-fi franchise secretly manipulate the human gene pool for the quality of luck.

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  5. A Chinese puppeteer entertains the crowd with the antics of his monkey on a bicycle at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington.

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Translations

1 languages

Forms

puppeteers, puppeteering, puppeteered, puppeteered
Base formpuppeteer · to puppeteer
3rd person singularpuppeteers
Present participlepuppeteering
Past simplepuppeteered
Past participlepuppeteered

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypuppeteer
he, she, itpuppeteers

Past simpleLesson

all personspuppeteered

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave puppeteered
he, she, ithas puppeteered

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill puppeteer

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
pupilB1pupperpuppetpuppyB1purchaseB2
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