Definitions for sculpture

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sculpture sculp·ture

Spelling: [skuhlp-cher]

IPA: /ˈskʌlp tʃər/

Sculpture is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 404 anagrams from letters in sculpture (celprstuu).

Definitions for sculpture

noun

1. 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.
2. such works of art collectively.
3. an individual piece of such work.

verb (used with object)

1. to carve, model, weld, or otherwise produce (a piece of sculpture).
2. to produce a portrait or image of in this way; represent in sculpture.
3. Physical Geography. to change the form of (the land surface) by erosion.

verb (used without object)

1. to work as a sculptor.

Origin of sculpture

1350-1400; Middle English (noun) Latin sculptūra, equivalent to sculpt(us) (past participle of sculpere to carve) + -ūra -ure

Examples for sculpture

I have ten pictures and eight pieces of sculpture on exhibition.

Discouraged and disgusted with the theatre, my passion for sculpture increased.

Historical photographs on view in the exhibition show a crazy quilt of painting and sculpture.

Now, Borkson and Sandoval have created a Rorschach-esq sculpture.

Machinery is a triumph of handicraft as truly as sculpture and architecture.

He emerges, barely, pared to his essence, like a sculpture hacked from ice.

Her very first sculpture, a metallic chrome unicorn aptly titled “Space Oracle,” sits on a pedestal directly in front.

“Most of the time, the body language was very violent towards the sculpture,” Adicéam said.

I then decided to take a studio and devote myself to sculpture.

They blamed me for everything—for my painting, my sculpture, and my health.