Effigy

//ˈɛfəd͡ʒi// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A dummy or other crude representation of a person, group or object that is hated.

    "In England on Bonfire Night, an effigy is often burned."

  2. 2
    a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture) wordnet
  3. 3
    A likeness of a person.

    "All around, terrace by terrace, there went marble lawns well guarded by onyx lions and carved with effigies of all the gods striding amid the symbols of the worlds."

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"In Turkey, every school has to have an Atatürk effigy."

Etymology

From French effigie, from Latin effigiēs (“likeness, effigy”), from effingō (“represent, portray”).

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