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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Puppeteer
//ˌpʌpɪˈtɪə//
Synonyms for "puppeteer" (2 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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3 entriesTranslations
66 translations across 34 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- poppemeester noun (person who uses a puppet)
- poppemeester noun (someone who is manipulative)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- kuklaçı noun (person who uses a puppet)
Belarusian
1 entries- ля́лечнік noun (person who uses a puppet)
Bulgarian
1 entries- куклово́д noun (person who uses a puppet)
Catalan
1 entries- titellaire noun (person who uses a puppet)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 控制狂 noun (someone who is manipulative)
Czech
2 entries- loutkoherec noun (person who uses a puppet)
- loutkář noun (person who uses a puppet)
Dutch
1 entries- poppenspeler noun (person who uses a puppet)
Esperanto
2 entries- marionetistino noun (person who uses a puppet)
- marionetisto noun (person who uses a puppet)
Faroese
1 entries- dukkuførari noun (person who uses a puppet)
French
2 entries- manipulateur noun (someone who is manipulative)
- marionnettiste noun (person who uses a puppet)
German
2 entries- Puppenspieler noun (person who uses a puppet)
- Puppenspielerin noun (person who uses a puppet)
Greek
2 entries- κουκλοπαίχτης noun (person who uses a puppet)
- μαριονετίστας noun (person who uses a puppet)
Hungarian
1 entries- bábjátékos noun (person who uses a puppet)
Indonesian
1 entries- dalang noun (person who uses a puppet)
Irish
1 entries- puipéadóir noun (person who uses a puppet)
Italian
4 entries- burattinaia noun (person who uses a puppet)
- burattinaio noun (person who uses a puppet)
- burattinaio noun (someone who is manipulative)
- manipolatore noun (someone who is manipulative)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- куурчакчы noun (person who uses a puppet)
Macedonian
2 entries- куклар noun (person who uses a puppet)
- манипулатор noun (someone who is manipulative)
Malay
1 entries- dalang noun (person who uses a puppet)
Māori
1 entries- ringa karetao noun (person who uses a puppet)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- قوقلهجی noun (person who uses a puppet)
Polish
4 entries- animator noun (person who uses a puppet)
- animatorka noun (person who uses a puppet)
- lalkarka noun (person who uses a puppet)
- lalkarz noun (person who uses a puppet)
Portuguese
2 entries- fantocheiro noun (person who uses a puppet)
- marionetista noun (person who uses a puppet)
Romanian
4 entries- manipulant noun (someone who is manipulative)
- manipulator noun (someone who is manipulative)
- marionetist noun (person who uses a puppet)
- marionetistă noun (person who uses a puppet)
Russian
2 entries- ку́кольник noun (person who uses a puppet)
- куклово́д noun (person who uses a puppet)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- lȕtkār noun (person who uses a puppet)
- лу̏тка̄р noun (person who uses a puppet)
Slovak
2 entries- bábkar noun (person who uses a puppet)
- bábkoherec noun (person who uses a puppet)
Slovene
2 entries- lutkar noun (person who uses a puppet)
- lutkarica noun (person who uses a puppet)
Spanish
4 entries- marionetista noun (person who uses a puppet)
- muñequero noun (person who uses a puppet)
- titerero noun (person who uses a puppet)
- titerista noun (person who uses a puppet)
Swedish
2 entries- dockspelare noun (person who uses a puppet)
- marionettspelare noun (person who uses a puppet)
Turkish
1 entries- kuklacı noun (person who uses a puppet)
Ukrainian
1 entries- лялька́р noun (person who uses a puppet)
Welsh
2 entries- pypedwr noun (person who uses a puppet)
- pypedwraig noun (person who uses a puppet)
Sample sentences
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The Puppeteer aliens in Larry Niven's sci-fi franchise of Known Space are not of humanoid shape, but have three legs, a body, and two long necks, at the end of which is one head each with a mouth with finger lips.
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Tom should have been a puppeteer. Whenever he brings the cuddly toys to life, it delights not only his children, but also his wife Mary.
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Miguel is a town puppeteer.
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