Statue
['stætjuː;-tʃuː] or ['stætʃu]
Definition
(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.
Editor: Margie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Image (made of some solid substance).
Edited by Arnold
Definition
n. a likeness of a human being or animal carved out of some solid substance: an image—(obs.) Stat′ua.—n. Stat′ūary the art of carving statues: a statue or a collection of statues: one who makes statues: a dealer in statues.—adj. Stat′ued furnished with statues.—n. Statuette′ a small statue.
Typist: Melville
Unserious Contents or Definition
To see statues in dreams, signifies estrangement from a loved one. Lack of energy will cause you disappointment in realizing wishes.
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Examples
- I mention this statue and this stairway because they have their story. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We could see now that the statue on the top of each was the size of a large man, though they all looked like dolls from the street. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Gerald sat erect, perfectly still, his face pale and calm, like the face of a statue. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Her hands rested in one another, like the hands of a statue; and even her manner of speaking was not hurried. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- She sank into the chair, and for a few moments sat like a statue, while images and emotions were hurrying upon her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And with that she raised her head, lofty in look and statue-like in hue, as Louis had described it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Each spire is surmounted by a statue six and a half feet high. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Directly opposite the main door is a beautiful marble statue purchased by Edison at the Paris Exposition in 1889, on the occasion of his visit there. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was like saying good-by to a statue. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Again you are pale as that statue. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- You may sculpture to the inch every portion of the human body, but that is only the outward semblance of the picture or the statue. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Then he looked up; she had not moved any more than if she had been some great Egyptian statue. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I saw her stand where he had left her, like a statue; and then bend down her head, and clasp her hands, and weep, I cannot say how sorrowfully. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The arch and the Achilles statue were up since he had last been in Piccadilly; a hundred changes had occurred which his eye and mind vaguely noted. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The front of the figure is towards them, but it takes no notice of their entrance and remains like a statue. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It makes me dizzy, to think of the Vatican--of its wilderness of statues, paintings, and curiosities of every description and every age. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The lofty gateways are graced with statues, and the broad floors are all laid in polished flags of marble. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But I suspect it is the sequel of the story of the statues. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Yes, sir, it was I who sold Dr. Barnicot his two statues. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- And yet its arches, its columns, and its statues proclaim it to have been built by an enlightened race. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The statues are all large; the palace is grand; the park covers a fair-sized county; the avenues are interminable. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Frazer's _Golden Bough_ about the ancient use of human beings as well as statues to represent gods. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The sight of the poetry eternized in these statues, took the sting from the thought, arraying it only in poetic ideality. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It has 7,148 marble statues, and will have upwards of three thousand more when it is finished. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There are statues of serpentine marble, gifts of the late Tsar of Russia, whose admiration is also represented by a gorgeous inlaid and enamelled cigar-case. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The sacred objects, statues, etc. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We wandered through the endless collections of paintings and statues of the Pitti and Ufizzi galleries, of course. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- No one but an anarchist would go about breaking statues. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Who did I get the statues from? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The statues of children holding vases of holy water were immense, according to the tables of figures, but so was every thing else around them. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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