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sculpture

sculp·ture
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [skuhlp-cher]
    • /ˈskʌlp tʃər/
    • /ˈskʌlp.tʃər/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [skuhlp-cher]
    • /ˈskʌlp tʃər/

Definitions of sculpture word

  • noun sculpture the art of carving, modeling, welding, or otherwise producing figurative or abstract works of art in three dimensions, as in relief, intaglio, or in the round. 1
  • noun sculpture such works of art collectively. 1
  • noun sculpture an individual piece of such work. 1
  • verb with object sculpture to carve, model, weld, or otherwise produce (a piece of sculpture). 1
  • verb with object sculpture to produce a portrait or image of in this way; represent in sculpture. 1
  • verb with object sculpture Physical Geography. to change the form of (the land surface) by erosion. 1
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Origin of sculpture

First appearance:

before 1350
One of the 20% oldest English words
1350-1400; Middle English (noun) < Latin sculptūra, equivalent to sculpt(us) (past participle of sculpere to carve) + -ūra -ure

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Parts of speech for Sculpture

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sculpture popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 91% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for sculpture

noun sculpture

  • beaux arts — noting or pertaining to a style of architecture, popularly associated with the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, that prevailed in France in the late 19th century and that was adopted in the U.S. and elsewhere c1900, characterized by the free and eclectic use and adaptation of French architectural features of the 16th through 18th centuries combined so as to give a massive, elaborate, and often ostentatious effect, and also by the use of symmetrical plans preferably allowing vast amounts of interior space.
  • cut — If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
  • graphic arts — any of the fine or applied visual arts based on drawing or the use of line, as opposed to colour or relief, on a plane surface, esp illustration and printmaking of all kinds
  • kerf — a cut or incision made by a saw or the like in a piece of wood.
  • marbles — metamorphosed limestone, consisting chiefly of recrystallized calcite or dolomite, capable of taking a high polish, occurring in a wide range of colors and variegations and used in sculpture and architecture.

verb sculpture

  • build — If you build something, you make it by joining things together.
  • carpentering — a person who builds or repairs wooden structures, as houses, scaffolds, or shelving.
  • cartooning — a sketch or drawing, usually humorous, as in a newspaper or periodical, symbolizing, satirizing, or caricaturing some action, subject, or person of popular interest.
  • chisel — A chisel is a tool that has a long metal blade with a sharp edge at the end. It is used for cutting and shaping wood and stone.
  • copy — If you make a copy of something, you produce something that looks like the original thing.
All 26 Synonyms of sculpture

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Related words

  • cavo-relievo

    a relief sculpture in which the highest point in the carving is below the level of the original surface

  • frieze

    a heavy, napped woolen cloth for coats.

  • geometric

    of or relating to geometry or to the principles of geometry.

  • minimal art

    a chiefly American style in painting and sculpture that developed in the 1960s largely in reaction against abstract expressionism, shunning illusion, decorativeness, and emotional subjectivity in favor of impersonality, simplification of form, and the use of often massive, industrially produced materials for sculpture, and extended its influence to architecture, design, dance, theater, and music.

  • plastic art

    an art, as sculpture, in which forms are carved or modeled.

  • postminimalism

    (sometimes initial capital letter) a style in painting and sculpture developing in the 1970s, retaining the formal simplifications of minimal art, but striving to imbue works with a broad range of meaning and reference and often demonstrating a concern with craft and a kinship with tribal art and sculpture.
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