Puppet and Vassal

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Puppet

Puppet noun - A small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything.
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Vassal and puppet are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Vassal" instead an adjective "Puppet".
Nearby Words: puppetry, puppeteer

Vassal

Vassal noun - A person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord.
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Puppet and vassal are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Puppet" instead an adjective "Vassal".
Nearby Word: vassalage

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good good puppet good vassal
loyal loyal puppet loyal vassal
mere mere puppet mere vassal

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  • Video Game / Civilization Puppet State: In the Warlords expansion for IV, any sufficiently powerful civ can make any sufficiently weak civ into their vassal state.
    Source: Video Game / Civilization
  • Puppet State: The main characters' country, Califa, is a vassal state of the Huitzil empire, because it was pretty much that or be conquered entirely.
    Source: Literature / Flora Segunda
  • Hegemonic Empire - The Backstory pins the Big Three as having become hegemonic empires during the era of the Coalition, during which they converted many of the smaller member countries into vassal, satellite, and puppet states.
    Source: Roleplay / Open Blue
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