sculpture

1. 1.

   create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material

   “sculpt a swan out of a block of ice”

   Synonymssculpt

   Broadershape

   art

2. 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”

   Synonymssculptgrave

   Broadercarve

Other forms of sculpture

plural

sculptures·

past tense

sculptured·

present participle

sculpturing·

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 sculpture

What does sculpture mean?

sculpture means "a three-dimensional work of plastic art". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sculpture?

sculpture has 2 syllables: sculp-ture. The stress falls on "sculp". In IPA it is /ˈskʌlptʃɚ/.

What is another word for sculpture?

Close synonyms include carving, sculpt, sculpt, grave. 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 sculpture a common word?

sculpture 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.