Other forms: statues
A statue is the stone or metal figure of a famous person standing in a square. A bronze statue, put up a statue, the statue was toppled.
It is free-standing and usually life-size or larger, which distinguishes it from a bust or a relief. Who gets one and who is taken down has become one of the sharpest public arguments of the last decade. Note that the Latin comes from statuere, to set up, the same root as statute and status.
1nounstatueA carved or cast figure of a person or animal.
“There's a bronze statue of the queen in the middle of the square.”
statue is a sculpture.
Latin statua comes from statuere, to set up, from stare, to stand. Status, statute and station come from the same standing.
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Old French
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English, today
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From Old French statue, from Latin statua, derived from statuō (“set up or erect”). a doublet of statua.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA