1.
[syn: sculptor, sculpturer, carver, statue maker]
2. a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Phoenix and Cetus;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sculptor \Sculp"tor\, n. [L. sculptor, fr. sculpere, sculptum,
to carve; cf. scalpere to cut, carve, scratch, and Gr. ? to
carve: cf. F. sculpteur.]
1. One who sculptures; one whose occupation is to carve
statues, or works of sculpture.
[1913 Webster]
2. Hence, an artist who designs works of sculpture, his first
studies and his finished model being usually in a plastic
material, from which model the marble is cut, or the
bronze is cast.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sculptor
n 1: an artist who creates sculptures [syn: sculptor,
sculpturer, carver, statue maker]
2: a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Phoenix
and Cetus
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "sculptor":
Arp, CYSP sculpture, French, Maillol, Michelangelo, Milles, Moore,
Oldenburg, Phidias, Picasso, Pisano, Praxiteles, Saint-Gaudens,
anaglyptics, anaglyptography, architectural sculpture,
bone-carving, carver, casting, ceroplastics, chaser, chasing,
clay modeler, clay sculpture, decorative sculpture, earth art,
earth artist, embossing, engraving, figurer, figuriste, founding,
garden sculpture, gem carver, gem-cutting, glass sculpture,
glyptic, graver, ivory-carving, lost-wax process, mason,
metal sculpture, modeler, modeling, molder, molding,
monumental mason, monumental sculpture, paper sculpture,
plaster casting, plastic art, portrait sculpture, relief,
relief-carving, relievo, sculptress, sculpture, sculpturer,
sculpturing, shell-carving, statuary, stone sculpture, stonecutter,
stonecutting, wax modeler, whittling, wire sculpture, wood carver,
wood carving, xyloglyphy