Effigy
['efɪdʒɪ] or ['ɛfɪdʒi]
Definition
(noun.) a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture); 'the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln'; 'the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone'.
Editor: Miriam--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Image, figure, representation, likeness, effigies.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Statue, figure, representation, image
ANT:Caricature, misrepresentation, distortion, daub
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Definition
n. a likeness or figure of a person: the head or impression on a coin: resemblance—(arch.) Effig′ies.—Burn in effigy to burn a figure of a person expressing dislike or contempt.
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Examples
- He had thrown off the seedy frockcoat, and now he was the Holmes of old in the mouse-coloured dressing-gown which he took from his effigy. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- You look like the effigy of a young knight asleep on his tomb, she said, carefully tracing the well-cut profile defined against the dark stone. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- See if you are not burnt in effigy this 5th of November coming. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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