Library / English Dictionary

STATUARY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Statues collectively

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("statuary" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "statuary"):

Elgin Marbles (a collection of classical Greek marble sculptures and fragments of architecture created by Phidias; chiefly from the Parthenon in Athens)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or suitable for statues

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

statue (a sculpture representing a human or animal)

Derivation:

statue (a sculpture representing a human or animal)

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