STATUARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does statuary mean? 

• STATUARY (noun)
  The noun STATUARY has 1 sense:

1. statues collectively

  Familiarity information: STATUARY used as a noun is very rare.

• STATUARY (adjective)
  The adjective STATUARY has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or suitable for statues

  Familiarity information: STATUARY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STATUARY (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)

• STATUARY (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)

 Context examples 

The parlor struck her as looking uncommonly shabby, but without stopping to sigh for what she had not, she skillfully made the best of what she had, arranging chairs over the worn places in the carpet, covering stains on the walls with homemade statuary, which gave an artistic air to the room, as did the lovely vases of flowers Jo scattered about.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)