sculpture

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin sculptura (“sculpture”), from sculpere (“to cut out, to carve in stone”).

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sculpture (usually uncountable, plural sculptures)

1. (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.

2. Works of art created by sculpting, as a group.
3. (zoology) The three-dimensional ornamentation on the outer surface of a shell

sculpture (third-person singular simple present sculptures, present participle sculpturing, simple past and past participle sculptured)

1. To fashion something into a three-dimensional figure.
2. To represent something in sculpture.
3. To change the shape of a land feature by erosion etc.

• sculpt
• sculptor
• sculptureless
• sculpturelike

• 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

• IPA^(key): /skyl.tyʁ/ (p is not pronounced)

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• Homophone: sculptures

sculpture f (plural sculptures)

1. sculpture

• “sculpture” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• sculpteur

sculptūre

1. vocative masculine singular of sculptūrus