Printable Statue of Liberty Word Search

Print 15 Statue of Liberty words in one grid, torch to pedestal, with the answer key on a second page.

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Statue of Liberty Word Search

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MNEODANQYHLCLHS

PPPEDESTALFRORI

MEZHKTGOPFBOHHW

BGQEYBEVBHEWFIP

LIBERTYISLANDQN

IFWELCOMEJRDRTE

BTTTSGAMITTYOUF

YFKEEMHIASKTBSR

HCHAINDGIYVPEFE

DCOPPERRVETTDRE

DMYLLWGANHAAVAD

TSUEPYZNHFOBTNO

LHARBORTGDQLDCM

DRATORCHKVTEOER

PRLSIKEAEJMTTAC

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TorchTORCH
CrownCROWN
TabletTABLET
RobeROBE
ChainCHAIN
CopperCOPPER
PedestalPEDESTAL
FranceFRANCE
GiftGIFT
HarborHARBOR
Liberty IslandLIBERTY ISLAND
New YorkNEW YORK
FreedomFREEDOM
WelcomeWELCOME
ImmigrantIMMIGRANT

15 words from the Statue of Liberty list.

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Answer key: Statue of Liberty Word Search

MNEODANQYHLCLHS

PPPEDESTALFRORI

MEZHKTGOPFBOHHW

BGQEYBEVBHEWFIP

LIBERTYISLANDQN

IFWELCOMEJRDRTE

BTTTSGAMITTYOUF

YFKEEMHIASKTBSR

HCHAINDGIYVPEFE

DCOPPERRVETTDRE

DMYLLWGANHAAVAD

TSUEPYZNHFOBTNO

LHARBORTGDQLDCM

DRATORCHKVTEOER

PRLSIKEAEJMTTAC

TORCH, CROWN, TABLET, ROBE, CHAIN, COPPER, PEDESTAL, FRANCE, GIFT, HARBOR, LIBERTY ISLAND, NEW YORK, FREEDOM, WELCOME, IMMIGRANT

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Parts of the Statue 21

Chain A broken one lies at her feet, recalling the end of slavery in the United States.
Concrete Poured for the walls of her base, up to 20 feet thick. It was the largest mass poured up to that time.
Copper The metal of her skin, in sheets about as thick as two pennies pressed together.
Crown What she wears on her head. A limited number of visitors can climb up inside it.
Flame The golden tip of what she holds up, bright in sunlight by day and under floodlights at night.
Fort Wood Old army post shaped like an eleven-point star. Her base rises from inside its walls.
Framework The hidden metal skeleton that holds up her skin, the work of a French engineer.
Granite Hard stone from a Connecticut quarry that faces the walls of her base.
Green Her color today. It spread over her dull metal skin in the years just after 1900.
Patina The thin coating that formed as her metal skin met air and rain. By 1906 it covered her completely.
Pedestal The tall base she stands on. The United States built it and paid for it.

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Parts of the Statue, continued

Rays Seven of these spikes fan out around her head.
Right Arm The limb that holds the light aloft. It is 42 feet long.
Rivets Small metal pins that fasten her plates to the straps behind them.
Robe The long, loose garment that drapes her from shoulder to foot.
Roman Numerals Letters used as numbers. On what she carries in her left hand, MDCCLXXVI stands for 1776.
Shackle An iron cuff for a prisoner's ankle. A broken one lies at her feet, out of sight from the ground.
Staircase Two spiral ones were built inside her so that visitors could climb to the lookout in her headpiece.
Tablet Held in her left hand, it reads JULY IV MDCCLXXVI, the date of the Declaration of Independence.
Torch She lifts it high in her right hand. The one she carries now dates from 1986 and has a gilded flame.
Windows There are 25 of these in her headpiece, looking out over the water.

A Gift from France 20

Centennial A hundredth birthday. She was planned to honor that of American independence in 1876.
Crates Wooden packing boxes. She crossed the ocean in pieces inside them.
Dedication The opening ceremony, held on October 28, 1886.
Donations Money given freely. Four fifths of the drive for her base came in sums of less than one dollar.
Engineer A person who works out how a structure will stand up. A French one built her inner frame.
Exposition A great fair. Her arm and torch were shown at one in Philadelphia in 1876.
France The country whose people gave her to the United States.
Gift A present. She was one from the people of one country to the people of another.
Lighthouse A tower with a light to guide ships. A federal board in charge of these ran her until 1901.
Monument Something built to honor a person, an idea or an event. She was declared a national one in 1924.
Newspaper A New York one ran the money drive for her base and promised to print the name of every giver.
Parade A march of bands and crowds through the streets. New York held one on the day she was unveiled.
Paris The city where she was made and stood complete before she was taken apart for the voyage.
Repousse French word for the way her skin was shaped: metal sheets were heated and struck with wooden hammers.
Restoration Careful repair of something old. Hers of 1984 to 1986 gave her a new torch.
Sculptor An artist who makes figures in metal, clay or stone. A French one designed her.
Steamer A ship driven by a steam engine. A French one, the Isere, reached New York with her on June 17, 1885.
Ticker Tape Paper ribbon that traders threw from windows on her opening day, starting a New York custom.
Voyage A long trip by sea, such as hers across the Atlantic in 1885.
Workshop A place where things are made by hand. Hers belonged to a firm of French metalworkers.

New York Harbor 17

Atlantic The ocean her pieces crossed from Europe, and the one that incoming ships leave behind.
Battery The park at the tip of Lower Manhattan, 1.6 miles northeast of her.
Ellis Island Her neighbor in the bay, where about 12 million immigrants were checked in between 1892 and 1954.
Harbor Sheltered water where ships come in. Hers lies where the Hudson River reaches the sea.
Hudson The river that meets the sea in the bay where she stands.
Jersey City The town on the shore to her west, in the next state, whose waters lie all around her island.
Landmark A place everyone knows. New York City made her an official one in 1976.
Liberty Island The small piece of land she stands on, called Bedloe's until 1956.
Manhattan The New York City borough that her island is counted as part of.
Museum A building on her island, opened in 2019, where her first torch is on show.
Narrows The strait that joins the upper bay, where she stands, to the lower bay.
New York The city and state she belongs to.
Oysters Shellfish once so plentiful in the bay that the Dutch named her island and its neighbors after them.
Ranger A uniformed guide of the National Park Service, which has looked after her since 1933.
Southeast The compass direction she faces, to greet ships coming in from the ocean.
Visitors People who come to see her: about 4.5 million of them in 2019.
World Heritage The United Nations list of the planet's treasured places. She joined it in 1984.

Freedom and Welcome 19

Abolition The ending of slavery, which the broken links at her feet recall.
Beacon A light set high to guide travelers.
Citizen A full member of a country, with its rights and duties.
Colossus A giant figure. An ancient one at Rhodes gave the 1883 poem about her its title.
Democracy Government by the people. The Frenchman who first proposed her admired America's.
Enlighten To give light or knowledge. Her full name says that she does this to the world.
Exiles People forced to leave their homelands. The poem written for her calls her their mother.
Freedom The state of not being owned or ruled unfairly. She is known all over the world as a sign of it.
Friendship The bond between France and the United States that an inscription on her speaks of.
Icon A thing so well known that it stands for a whole place or idea.
Immigrant Someone who leaves one country to make a home in another.
Independence Self-rule. The date she carries is the day in 1776 when the United States declared it.
Libertas The Roman goddess whose robed figure she is modeled on.
Liberty The idea she is named for: being free to live, speak and choose.
Plaque A flat metal plate with writing on it. A bronze one of 1903 carries the poem written for her.
Refuge A safe place for people fleeing danger.
Sonnet A poem of fourteen lines. One was written in 1883 as a fund-raiser for her base.
Symbol A thing that stands for an idea, as a heart stands for love.
Welcome A warm greeting. People arriving by sea to start a new life saw her as one.

How this list was compiled: Own work: the 77 words and every clue were written for this page. Measurements and the parts of the crown were checked on October 9, 2026 against the National Park Service's Statue Statistics page (https://www.nps.gov/stli/learn/historyculture/statue-statistics.htm); dates, names and places against English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Island, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Island, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Harbor and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Colossus. Licence: own work

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This printable Statue of Liberty word search hides 15 words, among them Torch, Crown, Tablet, Copper, Pedestal and Liberty Island. Four more lists take her from a French workshop to New York Harbor, and every word has a one-line meaning.

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A free printable Statue of Liberty word search in four lists

Start from a list splits the 77 words by topic: Parts of the Statue (21), A Gift from France (20), New York Harbor (17), Freedom and Welcome (19). The meanings teach as they go: "Paper ribbon that traders threw from windows on her opening day, starting a New York custom." is Ticker Tape.

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The meanings describe all three by their work, not by name. Type Bartholdi, Eiffel or Lazarus on the last line of the list and the grid takes each one in.

Easy Statue of Liberty keeps to 10 words of 3 to 5 letters, such as Torch, Crown, Rays and Robe.
The grid drops spaces, so look for LIBERTYISLAND, NEWYORK and TICKERTAPE.
Under More options, tick Show clues, not words: "Seven of these spikes fan out around her head." leads to Rays.

Questions and answers

What is written on the Statue of Liberty's tablet?

JULY IV MDCCLXXVI, which is July 4, 1776 written in Roman numerals, the day of the Declaration of Independence. Tablet and Roman Numerals are both words in Parts of the Statue.

Why is the Statue of Liberty green?

Her skin is copper. Soon after 1900 a green coating called patina began to spread over it, and by 1906 it covered her. Army engineers found that the patina protects the metal, so it was left alone.

How tall is the Statue of Liberty?

By the National Park Service's figures she measures 151 feet 1 inch from the top of her base to the torch, and 305 feet 1 inch from the ground to the tip of the torch.

Who gave the Statue of Liberty to the United States?

The people of France. She was made in Paris, shipped across the Atlantic in crates and dedicated on October 28, 1886. France paid for the statue; the United States built the pedestal.

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Parts of the Statue 21

Parts of the Statue, continued

A Gift from France 20

New York Harbor 17

Freedom and Welcome 19

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