Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small statue.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A small statue; a statue or image in the round much smaller than nature; a figurine.
Wiktionary
- n. A small statue, usually applied to a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta or the like.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A small statue; -- usually applied to a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta or the like. Cf. figurine.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small carved or molded figure
Examples
“UNDATED: In this undated handout from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Golden Globe statuette is seen.”
“In case you missed it, an archaeological team led by Nicholas Conard at the University ofTübingenexcavated a truly remarkable mammoth-ivory statuette from a German cave, Hohle Fels.”
“If the statuette is meant to depict Homotherium, it provides us with some new information on the life appearance of this cat, as it appears to be decorated with small spots, and to have a pale underside.”
“He must know by the measurement of a mud brick, by the color of a glass bead, by the modelling of a porcelain statuette, by the pattern of”
“Let’s hope the statuette is made of chocolate underneath the gold covering.”
“That statuette is a historic Oscar won by Pickford, who was Rogers’ first wife.”
“The statuette, which is 12 cm. tall, is heavily decorated with geometric patterns.”
“The statuette is a small replica of a life-sized bronze statue to be donated to the people of Soweto later this year, said”
“The Children Peace Prize statuette, which is passed on to the new child laureate every year, will be called 'the Nkosi'," read a press release from the organisers.”
“On the base of the statuette are the words "Captured But Not Conquered.”
Sergeant Hallyburton, the First American Soldier Captured in the World War
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘statuette’.
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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Wharton, Edith. Age of Innocence. 1920
A list of difficult words for L2-12 learners.
Faust, erection, metropolitan, splendor, shabby, conservatives, cherished, inconvenient, clung, acoustics, coupe, scramble and 261 more...
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Dust Collectors
statue, figurine, vase, bowl, plate, cup, crucible, tchotchke, caryatid, colossus, figure, sculpture and 8 more...
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Eco echo
While cleaning out some drawers today (28 September 2008), I found a list of words from Foucault's Pendulum that I'd written fifteen or twenty years ago. I'm adding some of them here, along with ot...
pendulum, isochronal, sublunar, triadic, unnumbered, unstretchable, pentaculum, agarttha, panta rei, ein-sof, chthonian, chelae and 51 more...
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mollusque The office was in a side street; its plate-glass window contained plaster statuettes of Cheops, Nefertiti, the Sphinx.
--Umberto Eco, 1988, Foucault's Pendulum, p. 202 Oct 3, 2008