sculpture

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

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

Translations

Verb

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.

Translations

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Further reading


French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skyl.tyʁ/ (p is not pronounced)
  • (file)
  • Homophone: sculptures

Noun

sculpture f (plural sculptures)

  1. sculpture

Further reading

Anagrams


Latin

Participle

sculptūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of sculptūrus
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