wax figure

1. 1.

   an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax

   Synonymswaxwork

   Broadereffigy

Questions about wax figure

What does wax figure mean?

wax figure means "an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax".

What is another word for wax figure?

Close synonyms include waxwork. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wax figure a common word?

wax figure is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.