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I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.
Roger Moore

Meaning of "effigies" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EFFIGIES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EFFIGIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Effigies is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EFFIGIES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

effigies

Effigy

An effigy is a representation of a specific person in the form of sculpture or some other three-dimensional medium. The use of the term is normally restricted to certain contexts in a somewhat arbitrary way: recumbent effigies on tombs are so called, but standing statues of individuals, or busts, are usually not. Likenesses of religious figures in sculpture are not normally called effigies. Effigies are common elements of funerary art, especially as a recumbent effigy in stone or metal placed on a tomb, or a less permanent "funeral effigy", placed on the coffin in a grand funeral, wearing real clothing. Figures, often caricature in style, that are damaged, destroyed or paraded in order to harm the person represented by magical means, or merely to mock or insult them or their memory, are also called effigies. It is common to burn an effigy of a person as an act of protest. The word comes, perhaps via French, from the Latin, meaning "representation", and originally was used in English in the plural only – even a single image was "the effigies of..." The word occurs in Shakespeare's As You Like It of 1600, though it first appeared in 1539.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EFFIGIES

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efflorescence
efflorescent

WORDS THAT END LIKE EFFIGIES

allergies
analogies
anthologies
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baggies
buggies
energies
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ideologies
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mythologies
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pathologies
piggies
prodigies
strategies
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technologies
trilogies
veggies

Synonyms and antonyms of effigies in the English dictionary of synonyms

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SYNONYMS OF «EFFIGIES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «effigies» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of effigies

Translation of «effigies» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EFFIGIES

Find out the translation of effigies to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of effigies from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «effigies» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

肖像
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

efigies
570 millions of speakers

English

effigies
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पुतले
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

دمى
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

чучела
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

efígies
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কুশপুত্তলিকা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

effigies
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Effigies
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Bildnisse
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

肖像
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

조각상
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Effigies
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hình nộm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கொடும்பாவியை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पुतळे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

effigies
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

effigi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wizerunki
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

опудала
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

efigii
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ομοιώματα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

beeltenissen
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

effigies
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

figurer
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of effigies

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EFFIGIES»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EFFIGIES» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about effigies

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2 QUOTES WITH «EFFIGIES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word effigies.
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Joe Johnston
Anonymity is a wonderful thing if you can hang on to it. I live in Pasadena where we try to keep the movie people out. We discourage them from moving in our neighborhood and if they do we burn effigies on their lawns.
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Roger Moore
I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EFFIGIES»

Discover the use of effigies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to effigies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Effigies: A Faye Longchamp Mystery
Faye Longchamp and Joe Wolf Mantooth have traveled to Neshoba County, Mississippi, to help excavate a site near Nanih Waiya, the sacred mound where tradition says the Choctaw nation was born.When farmer Carroll Calhoun refuses the ...
Mary Anna Evans, 2011
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Emblematic Mounds and Animal Effigies
Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text, possible missing pages, missing text and other issues beyond our control.
Stephen Denison Peet, 2010
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Effigies Poeticae, Or, The Portraits of the British Poets: ...
Illustrated by Notes Biographical, Critical, and Poetical Barry Cornwall. GILBERT WEST. 81 , No. 100. AARON HILL. From a scarce Print by Hulsbergh. This writer has, it must be confessed, but petit features, and withal, a little foppery in his ...
Barry Cornwall, 1824
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The Funeral Effigies of Westminster Abbey
This richly illustrated book is both a history of the collection and of the origins and development of the funeral effigy, and a full descriptive catalogue of the twenty-one effigies in the Abbey.
Anthony Ernest Harvey, Richard Mortimer, 2003
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Effigies & Ecstacies: Roman Baroque Sculpture and Design in ...
This book accompanies the National Gallery of Scotland's major Festival exhibition in 1998, a joint celebration of the fourth centenaries of the births of the two greatest sculptors of the Italian Baroque era, Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598 ...
Aidan Weston-Lewis, 1998
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Effigies Against the Light
The poems inEffigies Against the Lighthave the qualities of improvising with materials at hand and of formal complexity which also might distinguish cultures dispersing and re-resolving through exile – one of the book's major themes.
John Lawton Wilkinson, 2001
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Effigies: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing Pacific ...
This book is a collection of poems from four emerging poets from Native Alaskan and Native Hawaiian cultures.
Allison Adelle Hedge-Coke, Dg Nanouk Okpik, Cathy Tagnak Rexford, 2009
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Metamorphosis of a Death Symbol: The Transi Tomb in the Late ...
Kantorowicz suggested that the double images used on the tombs were based on the use of effigies at funerals. In order to understand the exact nature of the relationship between effigies and double structure, it is important to determine ...
Kathleen Cohen, 1973
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Effigies in Ashes
Bill Casey describes his journey from addiction, alienation, apostasy, and darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God.
Robert Joseph Dagney, 2005
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The Ancient Sepulchral Effigies and Monumental and Memorial ...
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William Henry Hamilton Rogers, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EFFIGIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term effigies is used in the context of the following news items.
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Burning issues
Carrying banners and placards, they burnt his effigies too. Then one day ... A few more burning the effigies of the political big-wigs. Incidentally ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
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Rangabati row: Sambalpur BJP youth wing files FIR
The youth wing members also burnt the effigies of Sona and Rituraj in front of the police station. "We have given a written complaint, mentioning ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
3
Cookstown SDLP councillor's outrage at 'snake' label over bonfire row
“Yet he took no time to condemn those who burn effigies of nationalist politicians. He took no time to challenge those who believe that ... «Mid Ulster Mail, Jul 15»
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It's Just the Iftar Meal That's Been Coloured By the Ghostly Hands of …
Anything you want from carb-free soup to dark chocolate effigies for your sweet tooth are just a phone call away. But it's not just the iftar meal ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
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Garbage heaps, overflowing drains everywhere
The municipal employees across the State will burn the effigies of the State government as a mark of protest, they added. Meanwhile, the ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
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Dungannon police allay legal fears over bonfires
... which creates toxic plumes of smoke, but have widened the prohibition to include rubbish, flags, election posters and effigies of individuals. «Tyrone Times, Jul 15»
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Only 5 MPs attended Loksabha, here is the proof - Pawan
... market and a few of the Janasena party leaders, even burnt the effigies of Kesineni Nani and other MPs of TDP, who reacted against Pawan. «Andhra Wishesh, Jul 15»
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Municipal employees strike work in Warangal, take out rally
The municipal employees across the state would burn the effigies of the State Government as a mark of protest during ongoing agitation, they ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
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Effigies and ambulances: the Museum of the Order of St John
The Museum of the Order of St John is one of London's hidden treasures, although it's hiding in plain sight! If you've walked around the ... «Crosswhatfields?, Jul 15»
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Student Wing hangs effigies of 57 MLAs
Imphal, July 07 2015 : As part of the ongoing movement demanding introduction of a stronger Bill to save the indigenous people of Manipur, Students Wing of ... «E-Pao.net, Jul 15»

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