sculpture

English Online Dictionary. What means sculpture‎? What does sculpture mean?

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈskʌlpt͡ʃɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈskʌlptj(ʊ)ə/, /ˈskʌlpt͡ʃə/
• Hyphenation: sculp‧ture

Noun

sculpture (usually uncountable, plural sculptures)

2. (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).
3. Works of art created by sculpting, as a group.
4. (zoology) The three-dimensional ornamentation on the outer surface of a shell.
5. (archaic) A printed picture, such as an engraving.

Derived terms

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

Related terms

• sculpt
• sculptor
• sculptureless
• sculpturelike

Further reading

• “sculpture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “sculpture”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “sculpture”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

French

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sculpture f (plural sculptures)

1. sculpture

Further reading

• “sculpture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• sculpteur

Latin

Participle

sculptūre

1. vocative masculine singular of sculptūrus