sculpture
/ˈskʌlpt͡ʃɚ/noun, verb2 syllables
Sculpture means: create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material.
Synonyms for sculpture3
What does sculpture mean?4
verb
1
create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material“sculpt a swan out of a block of ice”
2
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”
noun
1
creating figures or designs in three dimensions
2
a three-dimensional work of plastic art
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Sculpture in a sentence
- What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.Adelpa
- Critics described the sculpture as deliberately lumpen, heavy, and awkward.rul
- In the museum, sculptures from antiquity are exhibited.sundown
- He loves to make clay sculptures, often ending up covered in it.Nuel
- He went to art school to study painting and sculpture.CK
- Another form of art which was highly developed by them was sculpture.unknown
- This sculpture is more than two thousand years old.erikspen
- There is a glass sculpture in the garden.unknown
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Forms of sculpture
as a noun
- plural
- sculptures
as a verb
- past tense
- sculptured
- present participle
- sculpturing
- third-person singular
- sculptures
- past participle
- sculptured