Definition of Statue

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Statue

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.

A portrait.

To place, as a statue; to form a statue of; to make into a statue.

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Statue Quotations

I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty.
Bob Hope

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
Viktor E. Frankl

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Victor Hugo

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
Michelangelo

The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.
Michelangelo

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.
Jay Leno

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'
Robin Williams

There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.
Dean Martin

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.
Jose Marti

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
Elbert Hubbard

Statue Translations

statue in Afrikaans is standbeeld, beeld
statue in Dutch is beeld, standbeeld
statue in Finnish is patsas
statue in French is statue
statue in German is Standbild
statue in Hungarian is szobor
statue in Italian is statua
statue in Latin is statua
statue in Norwegian is statue
statue in Spanish is estatua
statue in Swedish is staty

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