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waxwork

waxwork noun: a figure made of wax, especially an effigy of a famous person.

Noun

waxwork (countable and uncountable, plural waxworks)

  1. (countable) A figure made of wax, especially an effigy of a famous person.
    • The amateur tenor, whose vocal villainies / All desire to shirk, / Shall during off-hours, / Exhibit his powers / To Madame Tussaud's waxwork.1885, Gilbert & Sullivan, The Mikado
  2. (uncountable) The art of producing such figures.
    • Waxwork is a fine art, but it differs from all other fine arts in that its main purpose is one that is expressly rejected by all those other arts.1926, R. Austin Freeman, The D'Arblay Mystery

waxwork meaning in Malayalam and Thai

waxwork in Malayalam

മെഴുകുപ്രതിമ

waxwork in Thai

a wax figure, an effigy of a famous person
หุ่นขี้ผึ้ง hùn-kîi-pʉ̂ng

Forms of waxwork

pluralwaxworks

Origin of waxwork

From wax + work.

Words formed from waxwork

Questions about waxwork

What does waxwork mean?
Waxwork means a figure made of wax, especially an effigy of a famous person.
What is waxwork in Malayalam?
Waxwork in Malayalam is മെഴുകുപ്രതിമ. See Waxwork meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is waxwork?
Waxwork is a noun.
What is the plural of waxwork?
The plural of waxwork is waxworks.

Words near waxwork in the dictionary

  1. waxups
  2. waxweed
  3. waxweeds
  4. waxwing
  5. waxwings
  6. waxwork
  7. waxworker
  8. waxworkers
  9. waxworking
  10. waxworks
  11. waxworky

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Adapted from Wiktionary: waxwork (page history and authors); waxwork (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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