Definitions
Number, shape, or person.
Word origin
From Middle English figure, borrowed from Old French figure, from Latin figūra (“form, shape, form of a word, a figure of speech, Late Latin a sketch, drawing”), from fingō (“to form, shape, mold, fashion”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to mold, shape, form, knead”). Cognate with Ancient Greek τεῖχος (teîkhos), Sanskrit देग्धि (dégdhi), Old English dāg (“dough”). More at dough. Doublet of figura.
Used in a sentence
“a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble”
“a coin that bears the figure of an angel”
“Ever since I was a young’n and my dad gave me a Godzilla figure, I’ve been a huge fan of the big green lizard from the Land of the Rising Sun.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Number or shape”6 letters
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