statue
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a three-dimensional work of art, as a representational or abstract form, carved in stone or wood, molded in a plastic material, cast in bronze, or the like.
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| —n | |
| a wooden, stone, metal, plaster, or other kind of sculpture of a human or animal figure, usually life-size or larger | |
| [C14: via Old French from Latin statua, from statuere to set up; compare | |
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Statue
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
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Word Origin & History
statue
c.1300, from O.Fr. statue (12c.), from L. statua "image, statue," prop. "that which is set up," back-formation from statuere "to cause to stand, set up," from status "a standing, position," from stare "to stand" (see stet). Statuary is from 1563. Statuesque is from early 1820s,
patterned on picturesque. Dim. statuette, with Fr. ending, is first recorded 1843. The children's game of statues is attested from 1906.
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Example sentences
The other glittering rich ornaments of this place seem almost to lose their lustre when the statue of the saint is uncovered.
To make a perfect composition in words is more than to make the best building or machine, or the best statue or picture.
The nurse holds his head as if it were the head of a statue whose sightless eyes have no pupils.
The first leg of our pilgrimage took us to a statue that overlooks a pond at the campus entrance.
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