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What is the difference between statue and statuette?

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Statuette is a related term of statue.



As nouns the difference between statue and statuette

is that statue is a three-dimensional work of art, usually representing a person or animal, usually created by sculpting, carving, molding, or casting while statuette is 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.

As a verb statue

is to form a statue of; to make into a statue.

statue

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A three-dimensional work of art, usually representing a person or animal, usually created by sculpting, carving, molding, or casting.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I will raise her statue in pure gold.
  • (dated) A portrait.
    • (Massinger)

    Hypernyms

    * image, sculpture, simulacrum

    Hyponyms

    * bust, figurine

    Derived terms

    * statued * statuelike * statuesque

    Related terms

    * statuary * statuette

    Verb

    (statu)
  • To form a statue of; to make into a statue.
  • * Feltham
    • The whole man becomes as if statued into stone and earth.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    statuette

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

    • See also

    * figurine ----