statue

CEFRA1

/ˈstæt͡ʃ.uː/

noun

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Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

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To form a statue of; to make into a statue.
A three-dimensional work of art, usually representing a person or animal, usually created by sculpting, carving, molding, or casting.

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When the Venus de Milo was entire, there were arms on the statue.
I will raise her statue in pure gold.
It’s true, Robert E. Lee was opposed to statues of people like Robert E. Lee! So any city that decides to keep a statue of him should, at the very least, add a speech bubble saying, “You know, I specifically told you all not to do this.”!

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I will raise her statue in pure gold.
c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] I...
It’s true, Robert E. Lee was opposed to statues of people like Robert E. Lee! So any city that decides to keep a statue of him should, at the very least, add a speech bubble saying, “You know, I specifically told you all not to do this.”!
2017 October 8, “Confederacy”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 26, John Oliver (actor), via HBO
The young lady just then would have formed a graceful model for a statue of Attention
a. 1876, Philip Massinger, Mart and Mansion
The whole man becomes as if statued into stone and earth.
1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political

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From Old French statue, from Latin statua, derived from statuō (“set up or erect”). Doublet of statua.