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effigy
(efɪdʒi)
Word forms: plural effigies
1. countable noun
An effigy is a quickly and roughly made figure, often ugly or amusing, that represents someone you hate or feel contempt for.
2. countable noun
An effigy is a statue or carving of a famous person.
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effigy in British English
(ˈɛfɪdʒɪ)
nounWord forms: plural -gies
1.
a portrait of a person, esp as a monument or architectural decoration
2.
a crude representation of someone, used as a focus for contempt or ridicule and often hung up or burnt in public (often in the phrases burn or hang in effigy)
Derived forms
effigial (ɪˈfɪdʒɪəl) adjective
Word origin
C18: from Latin effigiēs, from effingere to form, portray, from fingere to shapeeffigy in American English
(ˈɛfɪdʒi)
nounWord forms: plural ˈeffigies
a portrait, statue, or the like, esp. of a person; likeness; often, a crude representation of a despised person
Idioms:
burn (or hang) in effigy
Word origin
Fr effigie < L effigies, a copy, image < effingere < ex-, out + fingere, to form: see figureImage ofeffigy
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Examples of 'effigy' in a sentenceeffigy
(noun)
Definition
a crude representation of someone, used as a focus for contempt
An effigy was being burned in the town square.
Synonyms
likeness
The museum displays wax likenesses of every U.S. president.
figure
a life-size bronze figure of a woman
image
The polished stone bore the graven image of a snakebird.
model
an architect's model of a wooden house
guy
carving
It was a wood carving of a human hand.
representation
a life-like representation of Christ
statue
a huge white statue of Chairman Mao
icon
The exhibition features a wide range of religious icons, paintings, and mosaics.
idol
dummy
a shop-window dummy
statuette
Additional synonyms
in the sense of carving
Definition
a figure or design produced by carving stone or wood
It was a wood carving of a human hand.
Synonyms
sculpture,
model,
statue,
statuette,
etching,
engraving,
inscriptionin the sense of dummy
Definition
a large model that looks like a human being, used for displaying clothes in a shop, as a target, etc.
a shop-window dummy
Synonyms
model,
figure,
mannequin,
form,
manikin,
lay figure
in the sense of figure
Definition
a representation in painting or sculpture, esp. of the human body
a life-size bronze figure of a woman
Synonyms
representation,
image,
likenessNearby words ofeffigy
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