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Statue : (noun)
1: a sculpture representing a human or animal
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Statue : \Stat"ue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Statued; p. pr. & vb. n.
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.'' --Feltham.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Statue : \Stat"ue\, n. [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. --Shak.
2. A portrait. [Obs.] --Massinger.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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