Meaning

2 senses

  1. A work of art depicting an arrangement of inanimate objects.

    Stillleben

    натюрмо́ртnatjurmórt

    натюрмо́ртnatjurmórt

    a painting of inanimate objects such as fruit or flowers

  2. (countable, usually)A pattern that does not change from one generation to the next.

Examples

15 sentences

  1. Tom is still on life support.

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  2. My friends gave me that still life as a present.

    ruЭтот натюрморт мне подарили мои друзья. — nina99nv

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  3. I like to paint still lifes.

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  4. Sami was still on life support.

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  5. Yanni was still clinging to life.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
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work of art:
Русский
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work of art:
Deutsch
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work of art:

Origin

Calque of Dutch stilleven.

Calque of Dutch stilleven.

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Forms

plural: still lifes / still lives

Synonyms

1 synonyms
work of art:nature morte

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
stillA1stillbornstillnessstilt

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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