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statue

[stach-oo]

noun

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.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English < Middle French < Latin statua, noun derivative of statuere to set up, itself derivative of status (see status)

Related forms

stat·ue·like, adjective

Can be confused: statue, stature, statute.

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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.

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World English Dictionary

statue (ˈstætjuː)

—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 statute]

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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,

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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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