sculpture
English
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin sculptura (“sculpture”), from sculpere (“to cut out, to carve in stone”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
sculpture (usually uncountable, plural sculptures)
- (countable) A three dimensional work of art created by shaping malleable objects and letting them harden or by chipping away pieces from a rock (sculpting).
- Dryden
- There, too, in living sculpture, might be seen / The mad affection of the Cretan queen.
- Dryden
- Works of art created by sculpting, as a group.
- (zoology) The three-dimensional ornamentation on the outer surface of a shell
Translations
art of sculpting
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work of art created by sculpting
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Verb
sculpture (third-person singular simple present sculptures, present participle sculpturing, simple past and past participle sculptured)
Translations
to fashion into 3D figure
to represent in sculpture
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Related terms
- sculpt
- sculptor
- sculptureless
- sculpturelike
Further reading
- sculpture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- sculpture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- sculpture at OneLook Dictionary Search
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skyl.tyʁ/ (p is not pronounced)
Audio (file) - Homophone: sculptures
Further reading
- “sculpture” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
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