Idol vs Statue - What's the difference?
idol | statue |
A graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power.
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* 1911 (The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God) , :
A cultural icon, or especially popular person.
A three-dimensional work of art, usually representing a person or animal, usually created by sculpting, carving, molding, or casting.
* Shakespeare
(dated) A portrait.
To form a statue of; to make into a statue.
* Feltham
As nouns the difference between idol and statue
is that idol is a graven or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power while statue is a three-dimensional work of art, usually representing a person or animal, usually created by sculpting, carving, molding, or casting.As a verb statue is
to form a statue of; to make into a statue.idol
English
Noun
(en noun)- There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Kathmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town; There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew, And the Yellow God forever gazes down.
Descendants
* Japanese:Derived terms
* idolatry * idolise, idolizeAnagrams
* * * * * ----statue
English
Noun
(en noun)- I will raise her statue in pure gold.
- (Massinger)
Hypernyms
* image, sculpture, simulacrumHyponyms
* bust, figurineDerived terms
* statued * statuelike * statuesqueVerb
(statu)- The whole man becomes as if statued into stone and earth.