sculpture
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (2)sculptures
Verb (2)sculptures, sculptured, sculpturing
- create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material“sculpt a swan out of a block of ice”Synonyms: sculptMore general shape, formSimilar sculpt, grave
- shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it“She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband”Synonyms: sculptgraveMore general carveSimilar sculpt
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Translations
Noun work of art created by sculpting
- Spanish
- escultura
- French
- sculpture
- German
- Skulptur
- Italian
- scultura
- Portuguese
- escultura
- Turkish
- heykel
- Russian
- скульпту́ра skulʹptúra
- Arabic
- تِمْثَال timṯāl
- Chinese
- 雕塑 diāosù
- Japanese
- 彫刻 chōkoku
32 more languages
- Dutch
- beeldhouwwerk
- Polish
- rzeźba
- Swedish
- skulptur
- Greek
- γλυπτό glyptó
- Korean
- 조각 jogak
- Indonesian
- patung
- Vietnamese
- tượng
- Hungarian
- szobor
- Portuguese (PT)
- escultura
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 雕塑 diāosù
- Albanian
- skulpturë
- Catalan
- escultura
- Corsican
- scultura
- Czech
- socha
- Danish
- skulptur
- Esperanto
- skulptaĵo
- Estonian
- skulptuur
- Finnish
- veistos
- Georgian
- სკულპტურა sḳulṗṭura
- Hebrew
- פֶּסֶל pésel
- Icelandic
- höggmynd
- Kurdish
- heykel
- Latvian
- skulptūra
- Lithuanian
- skulptūra
- Norwegian
- skulptur
- Romanian
- sculptură
- Serbo-Croatian
- skulptura
- Slovak
- socha
- Slovenian
- skulptura
- Swahili
- sanamu
- Walloon
- sculteure
- Welsh
- cerflun
Noun art of sculpting
- Spanish
- escultura
- French
- sculpture
- German
- Bildhauerkunst
- Italian
- scultura
- Portuguese
- escultura
- Russian
- вая́ние vajánije
- Chinese
- 雕塑 diāosù
- Japanese
- 彫刻 chōkoku
- Dutch
- sculptuur
- Polish
- rzeźbiarstwo
17 more languages
- Swedish
- skulpturkonst
- Greek
- γλυπτική glyptikí
- Korean
- 조각 jogak
- Vietnamese
- điêu khắc
- Hungarian
- szobrászat
- Portuguese (PT)
- escultura
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 雕塑 diāosù
- Albanian
- gdhend
- Catalan
- escultura
- Czech
- sochařství
- Danish
- skulptur
- Finnish
- kuvanveisto
- Lithuanian
- skulptūra
- Norwegian
- skulptur
- Romanian
- sculptură
- Slovak
- sochárstvo
- Welsh
- cerfluniaeth
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. sculptura: cf. F. sculpture.
1. The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials.
2. Carved work modeled of, or cut upon, wood, stone, metal, etc.
There, too, in living sculpture, might be seen The mad affection of the Cretan queen.— John Dryden
To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave.
Sculptured tortoise Zoology, a common North American wood tortoise (Glyptemys insculpta). The shell is marked with strong grooving and ridges which resemble sculptured figures.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54