- a representation or image, especially sculptured, as on a monument.
- a crude representation of someone disliked, used for purposes of ridicule.
- in public view in the form of an effigy: a leader hanged in effigy by the mob.
- a portrait of a person, esp as a monument or architectural decoration
- a crude representation of someone, used as a focus for contempt or ridicule and often hung up or burnt in public (often in the phrases burn or hang in effigy)
