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statuette

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ˌstætjuˈɛt/
  • /ˌstætʃuˈɛt/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɛt
  • CMU ARPABET: S T AE2 CH UW0 EH1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A small statue, usually 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 etc.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a small carved or molded figure

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: figurine

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: figure

History

Etymology

Borrowed from French statuette, from statue f + -ette (feminine of the diminutive suffix -et). By surface analysis, statue + -ette (diminutive suffix).

Across languages

Translations

28 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: статуе́тка (statuétka) — a small statue
  • Catalan: estatueta — a small statue
  • Chinese Mandarin: 小塑像 (xiǎo sùxiàng) — a small statue
  • Chinese Mandarin: 小雕像 (xiǎo diāoxiàng) — a small statue
  • Crimean Tatar: eykelçik — a small statue
  • Czech: soška — a small statue
  • Dutch: beeldje — a small statue
  • Esperanto: statueto — a small statue
  • Estonian: pisiskulptuur — a small statue
  • Finnish: pienoispatsas — a small statue
  • French: statuette — a small statue
  • German: Statuette — a small statue
  • Greek: αγαλματίδιο (agalmatídio) — a small statue
  • Ancient Greek: ἀγαλμάτιον (agalmátion) — a small statue
  • Ido: statueto — a small statue
  • Irish: deilbhín — a small statue
  • Italian: statuetta — a small statue
  • Japanese: スタチュート — a small statue
  • Latin: sigillum — a small statue
  • Norwegian Bokmål: statuett — a small statue
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: statuett — a small statue
  • Polish: statuetka — a small statue
  • Polish: posążek — a small statue
  • Portuguese: estatueta — a small statue
  • Russian: статуэ́тка (statuétka) — a small statue
  • Spanish: estatuilla — a small statue
  • Swedish: statyett — a small statue
  • Ukrainian: статуе́тка (statuétka) — a small statue
Real reading context

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