statue

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation)
- (yod-coalescence) IPA^(key): /ˈstæt͡ʃ.uː/
- (non-yod-coalescence) IPA^(key): /ˈstæt.juː/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstæt͡ʃu/
- Audio (US): (file)
(Indic) IPA^(key): /sʈatʃ(j)u/

Noun

statue (plural statues)

A statue of a detective

A three-dimensional work of art, usually representing a person or animal, usually created by sculpting, carving, molding, or casting.
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
  I will raise her statue in pure gold.
- 2017 October 8, “Confederacy”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 26, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:
  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.”!
(dated) A portrait.
- a. 1876, Philip Massinger, Mart and Mansion:
  The young lady just then would have formed a graceful model for a statue of Attention

Hypernyms

image, sculpture, simulacrum

Hyponyms

bust, figurine

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

three-dimensional work of art

Afrikaans: standbeeld
Albanian: statujë (sq) f, shtatore (sq) f
Arabic: تِمْثال m (timṯāl), دُمْيَة f (dumya)
Egyptian Arabic: تمثال m (temsāl)
Armenian: արձան (hy) (arjan), (of a man) անդրի (hy) (andri)
Asturian: estatua f
Azerbaijani: heykəl (az)
Balinese: arca, togog
Bashkir: һәйкәл (həykəl)
Basque: estatua
Belarusian: ста́туя f (státuja)
Bengali: মূর্তি (bn) (murti)
Bhojpuri: मुर्ती (murtī)
Bikol:
Central Bikol: pararangpan
Braj: मूरत f (mūrat)
Breton: delwenn (br) f
Bulgarian: ста́туя (bg) f (státuja)
Burmese: ရုပ်ထု (ruphtu.), ရုပ်တု (my) (ruptu.)
Catalan: estàtua (ca) f
Cebuano: estatuwa
Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵙⴻⴱⴷⴰⴷ m (asebdad)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 雕像 (diu¹ zoeng⁶), 塑像 (sou³ zoeng⁶)

Hakka: 雕像 (tiâu-siong), 塑像 (chok-siong)

Hokkien: 雕像 (zh-min-nan) (tiau-siōng), 塑像 (sok-siǒng)

Mandarin: 雕像 (zh) (diāoxiàng), 塑像 (zh) (sùxiàng)
Chuukese: nios
Circassian:
East Circassian: сын (kbd) (sən)
Coptic: ⲙⲏⲓⲛⲓ m (mēini)
Corsican: statua (co) f
Cree: ᐊᔨᓯᓂᐦᑳᐣ (ayisinihkaan)
Montagnais: innitsheuan
Czech: socha (cs) f
Danish: statue c
Dutch: standbeeld (nl) n
Egyptian:

(twt m),

(ẖntj m)
Elfdalian: staty m
Esperanto: statuo
Estonian: kuju (et)
Faroese: standmynd f
Fijian: vakatākarakara
Finnish: kuvapatsas, patsas (fi)
French: statue (fr) f
Frisian:
West Frisian: stânbyld (fy) n
Galician: estatua (gl) f
Georgian: ქანდაკება (ka) (kandaḳeba), სტატუა (sṭaṭua)
German: Statue (de) f, Standbild (de) n
Greek: άγαλμα (el) n (ágalma)
Ancient Greek: ἄγαλμα n (ágalma), (of a human) ἀνδριάς m (andriás)
Greenlandic: inuusaliaq
Gujarati: પ્રતિમા (gu) f (pratimā)
Haitian Creole: estati
Hawaiian: kiʻi, kiʻi kālai ʻia
Hebrew: פֶּסֶל (he) m (pésel)
Hindi: प्रतिमा (hi) f (pratimā), मुर्ती f (murtī), मूरत (hi) f (mūrat), मुजस्समा (hi) m (mujassamā)
Hungarian: szobor (hu)
Icelandic: stytta f
Ido: statuo (io)
Ilocano: estátua
Indonesian: patung (id)
Irish: dealbh (ga) f, íomhá f
Italian: statua (it) f
Japanese: 像 (ja) (ぞう, zō), 彫像 (ja) (ちょうぞう, chōzō), 塑像 (ja) (そぞう, sozō) (clay)
Javanese:
Carakan: ꦉꦕ (jv) (reca)

Rumi: reca (jv)
Kannada: ಪ್ರತಿಮೆ (kn) (pratime)
Kazakh: мүсін (müsın)
Khmer: រូបចំលាក់ (ruup cɑm lĕək), រូប (km) (ruup), រូបឆ្លាក់ (ruup chlak)
K'iche': atz (Classical)
Korean: 조상(彫像) (ko) (josang), 조각상(彫刻像) (jogaksang), 상(像) (ko) (sang)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: peykel (ku) m, heykel (ku) m, senem (ku) m, pût (ku) m, kelwaş (ku) m
Kyrgyz: статуя (ky) (statuya), айкел (ky) (aykel)
Lao: ຮູບປັ້ນ (hūp pan)
Latin: statua (la) f
Latvian: statuja f
Limburgish: standjsbeildj n
Lingala: ekeko class 7/8
Lithuanian: statula f
Luxembourgish: Statu f
Macedonian: ста́туа f (státua), кип m (kip)
Malagasy: sary vongana (mg)
Malay: patung (ms)
Malayalam: പ്രതിമ (ml) (pratima)
Maltese: statwa f, vara f
Māori: pakoko
Marathi: पुतळा m (putḷā)
Mirandese: státua f
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: хөшөө (mn) (xöšöö), баримал (mn) (barimal)
Neapolitan: statola f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: statue m

Nynorsk: statue m
Occitan: estatua (oc) f
Odia: ମୂର୍ତି (murti)
Ojibwe: mazinichigan
Old English: anlīcnes f
Old South Arabian: 𐩮𐩡𐩣𐩬 (ṣlmn)
Papiamentu: estatua
Parthian: 𐭐𐭕𐭊𐭓 (ptkr) (ptkr)
Pashto: مجسمه f (mojasema), هيکل m (haykal)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: تَنْدیس (tandis), مُجَسَّمِه (mojassame), پِیْکَرِه (peykare), هِیْکَل (heykal) (rare)
Polish: posąg (pl) m, statua (pl) f
Portuguese: estátua (pt) f
Rapa Nui: mo'ai
Romagnol: stêtuva f
Romanian: statuie (ro) f, statuă (ro) f
Romansh: statua f
Russian: ста́туя (ru) f (státuja), извая́ние (ru) n (izvajánije)
Sami:
Northern Sami: bázzi
Samogitian: statola f
Sanskrit: प्रतिमा (sa) f (pratimā)
Scottish Gaelic: buinne f, ìomhaigh f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ста̑туа f, ки̑п m

Latin: stȃtua (sh) f, kȋp (sh) m
Shan: ႁုၼ်ႇႁၢင်ႈ (shn) (hùn hāang)
Sicilian: stàtua (scn) f
Sikkimese: སྐུ (sku)
Sinhalese: පිළිමය (piḷimaya)
Slovak: socha f
Slovene: kip (sl) m
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: statua f, postawa f
Spanish: estatua (es) f
Sundanese: patung
Swahili: sanamu (sw) class 9/10
Swedish: staty (sv) c, stod (sv) c
Tagoi: istatuwa
Tajik: ҳайкал (tg) (haykal), муҷассама (mujassama)
Tamil: சிலை (ta) (cilai), உருவம் (ta) (uruvam)
Tatar: һәйкәл (tt) (häykäl)
Telugu: ప్రతిమ (te) (pratima), విగ్రహం (te) (vigrahaṁ)
Thai: รูปปั้น (rûup-bpân)
Tibetan: སྐུ་འདྲ (sku 'dra), འདྲ་སྐུ ('dra sku), སྐུ་བརྙན (sku brnyan)
Tigrinya: ሓወልቲ (ḥawälti)
Turkish: heykel (tr), yontu (tr), kurçak (tr) (or korçak; which may mean 'doll' as well)
Ottoman Turkish: هیكل (heykel)
Turkmen: heýkel
Ugaritic: 𐎕𐎍𐎎 (ṣlm)
Ukrainian: ста́туя f (státuja)
Urdu: مُجَسَّمَہ m (mujassama), بُت m (but)
Uyghur: ھەيكەل (heykel)
Uzbek: haykal (uz)
Vietnamese: tượng (vi) (像)
Volapük: magot (vo)
Welsh: statud m, cerflun m
Yiddish: סטאַטוע f (statue)
Zazaki: heykel

portrait — see portrait

Verb

statue (third-person singular simple present statues, present participle statuing, simple past and past participle statued)

(transitive) To form a statue of; to make into a statue.
- 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
  The whole man becomes as if statued into stone and earth.