Thesaurus: statue
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.
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- n. 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.
- n. A portrait.
- v. t. To place, as a statue; to form a statue of; to make into a statue.
- n. a sculpture representing a human or animal
- 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. Shak. 2. A portrait. [Obs.] Massinger. 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." Feltham.
- To place, as a statue; to form a statue of; to make into astatue. "The whole man becomes as if statued into stone and earth."Feltham.
- n:100 n. a sculpture representing a human or animal