sculpture
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English sculpture, from Old French sculpture, from Latin sculptūra, from sculpō ("to cut out, to carve in stone").
Pronunciation Nounsculpture (uncountable)
- (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).
- 1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC ↗:
- There, too, in living sculpture, might be seen / The mad affection of the Cretan queen.
- Works of art created by sculpting, as a group.
- (zoology) The three-dimensional ornamentation on the outer surface of a shell.
- (archaic) A printed picture, such as an engraving.
- French: sculpture
- German: Bildhauerkunst, Skulptur
- Italian: scultura
- Portuguese: escultura
- Russian: вая́ние
- Spanish: escultura
- French: sculpture
- German: Skulptur
- Italian: scultura
- Portuguese: escultura
- Russian: скульпту́ра
- Spanish: escultura
sculpture (sculptures, present participle sculpturing; simple past and past participle sculptured)
- To fashion something into a three-dimensional figure.
- To represent something in sculpture.
- To change the shape of a land feature by erosion etc.
- Spanish: esculpir
- Spanish: esculpir
- sculpt
- sculptor
- sculptureless
- sculpturelike
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