statuary

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈstæ.t͡ʃʊə.ɹi/    美 /ˈstæ.t͡ʃu.ɛəɹi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The craft of making statues. uncountable
  2. A person who makes or deals in statues.
  3. Statues considered collectively. uncountable
    — Simply on aesthetic grounds I can almost applaud the Victorians’ fig obsessed Bowdlerisation of Greek and Roman statuary.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of statues.
    — He [Francis Bacon] lyeth interred in the Church of St. Michael at St. Albans in Hartfordſhire, and hath there a fair ſtatuary monument erected for him of white Marble at the coſt of Sir Thomas Meautis, his ancient ſervant, who was not neerer to him living then dead: […]

词形变化

statuaries plural more statuary comparative most statuary superlative

词源

词源 1
From Latin statuāria (ars) (“(art) of sculpture”), feminine of the adjective statuārius (“of statues”).
词源 2
From Latin statuārius (“maker of statues”).
词源 3
From the noun or the Latin adjective statuārius (“of statues”).
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