sculpture

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

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

[edit] Noun

sculpture (usually uncountable; plural sculptures)

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  1. (uncountable) The art of shaping figures or designs in the round or in relief, professionally performed by a sculptor
  2. (countable) A work of art created by sculpting.
  3. Works of art created by sculpting, as a group.

[edit] Translations

art of sculpting
work of art created by sculpting

[edit] 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.

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to fashion into 3D figure
to represent in sculpture
to shape a land feature
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[edit] Noun

sculpture f. (plural sculptures)

  1. sculpture

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[edit] Participle

sculptūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of sculptūrus
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