carving

Other forms of carving

plural

carvings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about carving

What does carving mean?

carving means "a sculpture created by removing material (as wood or ivory or stone) in order to create a desired shape". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in carving?

carving has 2 syllables: car-ving. The stress falls on "car". In IPA it is /ˈkɑɹvɪŋ/.

What is another word for carving?

Close synonyms include cutting, sculpture. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carving a common word?

carving is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.