Waxwork

Definitions: Waxwork

Waxwork

Noun

1. Twining shrub of North America having three-valved yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds.

2. An effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax.

Date "waxwork" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references)

Synonyms: Waxwork

Synonyms: bittersweet (n), climbing bittersweet (n), false bittersweet (n), staff vine (n), wax figure (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Representation	Figure, figure head; puppet, doll, figurine, aglet, manikin, lay-figure, model, mammet, marionette, fantoccini, waxwork, bust; statue, statuette.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Waxwork

English words defined with "waxwork": Waxworker. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Waxwork II: Lost in Time (1992)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Waxwork" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Waxwork" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	12	101,599

Expressions using "waxwork": Roxbury waxwork ♦ waxwork exibition. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "waxwork"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		të ngjiturit prej dylli, figurë prej dylli. (various references)

Arabic		‏معرض الشمع, ‏التمثال الشمعي. (various references)

Bulgarian		восъчни отливки, отливане на модели от восък, моделиране на восъчни фигури. (various references)

Czech		vosková figura, práce z vosku (waxworks). (various references)

French		personnage en cire (waxworks), musée de cire. (various references)

German		Wachsfigur (wax figure, wax work). (various references)

Greek		κέρινο ομοίωμα, κήρινα είδη. (various references)

Hebrew		דמות שעוה. (various references)

Hungarian		viaszmintázás, viaszbáb. (various references)

Italian		statua di cera. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		蝋細工 , 蝋人形 (wax model). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ろうざいく, ろうにんぎょう (wax model). (various references)

Manx		jallooys kereagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		axworkway

Portuguese		trabalho em cera, modelagem em cera, figura de cera. (various references)

Romanian		panoptic (panoptic, panopticon), figurinã de cearã. (various references)

Russian		восковая фигура, муляж. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		voštani kip. (various references)

Spanish		figura de cera. (various references)

Swedish		vaxfigur, vaxarbete. (various references)

Turkish		mum bebek (wax doll), balmumu işi, balmumu heykel. (various references)

Ukranian		воскова фігура (wax), муляж, ліплення з воску. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "waxwork": waxworks. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Waxwork" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: warwork. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-k-o-r-w-w-x"
	-3 letters: okra, wark, work.
	-4 letters: ark, koa, kor, oak, oar, oka, ora, raw, rax, row, war, waw, wax, wok, wow.
	-5 letters: ar, aw, ax, ka, or, ow, ox, wo.
	Words containing the letters "a-k-o-r-w-w-x"
	+1 letter: waxworks.
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