statue
NounUS[stach-oo]/ˈstæˌtʃu/2 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (1)statues
- a sculpture representing a human or animalType of sculptureKinds sphinx, herm, terminus, nude, Olympian ZeusExamples Statue of Liberty, Colossus of Rhodes
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Translations
Noun three-dimensional work of art
- Spanish
- estatua
- French
- statue
- German
- Statue
- Italian
- statua
- Portuguese
- estátua
- Turkish
- heykel
- Russian
- ста́туя státuja
- Arabic
- تِمْثال timṯāl
- Chinese
- 塑像 sùxiàng
- Japanese
- 彫像 chōzō
32 more languages
- Dutch
- standbeeld
- Polish
- posąg
- Swedish
- staty
- Greek
- άγαλμα ágalma
- Korean
- 조상 josang
- Indonesian
- patung
- Vietnamese
- tượng
- Hungarian
- szobor
- Portuguese (PT)
- estátua
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 雕像 diāoxiàng
- Breton
- delwenn
- Catalan
- estàtua
- Corsican
- statua
- Czech
- socha
- Danish
- statue
- Esperanto
- statuo
- Finnish
- patsas
- Georgian
- ქანდაკება kandaḳeba
- Hebrew
- פֶּסֶל pésel
- Icelandic
- stytta
- Kurdish
- peykel
- Latvian
- statuja
- Lithuanian
- statula
- Malagasy
- sary vongana
- Norwegian
- statue
- Romanian
- statuie
- Scottish Gaelic
- buinne
- Serbo-Croatian
- kip
- Slovak
- socha
- Slovenian
- kip
- Swahili
- sanamu
- Welsh
- cerflun
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Stat′ue (stăch′o͞o; also, stăt′ū; 135), noun
Origin: F., fr. L. statua (akin to stativus standing still), fr. stare, statum, to stand. See Stand.
1. The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue of Hercules, or of a lion.
I will raise her statue in pure gold.— William Shakespeare
2. A portrait. obsolete Philip Massinger
Stat′ue transitive verb [past tense & past participle Statued (-ūd); present participle & verbal noun Statuing.]
To place, as a statue; to form a statue of; to make into a statue. “The whole man becomes as if statued into stone and earth.” Owen Feltham
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54