What does life-sized mean?

life-sized

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Frequency: 4.26 in modern English

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Full-scale, as a model that is the same size as what it is a model of.

"The life-sized statue was the same size as the subject, and since he had never fit in that chair, neither did the statue."
"The boy made a life-sized dummy of himself by stuffing scrunched- up newspapers into some old pyjamas."

lifesized (alternative) life-size (alternative)

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