variants or life-sized
: of natural size : of the size of the original
a life-size statue

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Everything changes for the New Boy — and for Sister Eileen — when a life-size carving of Christ on the cross arrives. Ella Kemp, IndieWire, 23 May 2025 The life-size wall sculpture in Moscow’s Taganskaya metro station depicts Stalin standing on Moscow’s Red Square surrounded by a crowd of Soviet citizens looking at him in admiration, and is a recreation of a monument that was unveiled in the same station in 1950, three years before Stalin died. Reuters, CNN Money, 23 May 2025 Then, after creating the form and placing the QR code on flyers, posters or life-size celebrity cutouts, vendors will need to know if people are actually scanning it. Benjamin Claeys, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025 Authorities in Melania Trump’s native Slovenia are probing the disappearance of a life-size statue depicting the First Lady, which was housed in her birthplace. Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 16 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for life-size

Word History

First Known Use

1813, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of life-size was in 1813

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“Life-size.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/life-size. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.

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life-size

adjective
ˈlīf-ˈsīz
variants or life-sized
-ˈsīzd
: of natural size : having the same size as the original
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