statueとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈstætʃ.uː/, /ˈstæt.juː/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈstætʃu/

名詞

statue (複数形 statues)

a statue of a detective

1. A three-dimensional work of art, usually representing a person or animal, usually created by sculpting, carving, molding, or casting.
   • c. 1591–1595, 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 606515358, [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, 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.”!

2. (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

上位語

• image, sculpture, simulacrum

下位語

• bust, figurine

派生語

• statued
• statuelike
• statuesque

関連する語

• statuary
• statuette

動詞

statue (三人称単数 現在形 statues, 現在分詞 statuing, 過去形および過去分詞形 statued)

1. (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.

アナグラム

• astute

Latin

動詞

statue

1. second-person singular present active imperative of statuō