sculpture
/ˈskʌlpt͡ʃɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.92 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A three-dimensional work of art created by shaping malleable objects and letting them harden or by chipping away pieces from a rock (sculpting).
Countable
noun
More generally (since modernism), a three-dimensional work of art of any material or of mixed materials, whether sculpted, assembled, found, constructed or created using multiple techniques.
Countable
verb
To fashion something into a three-dimensional figure.
Example Sentences
- "There, too, in living sculpture, might be seen / The mad affection of the Cretan queen."
- "Whereas upon the humble Requeſt of Our Truſty and Wel-beloved Servant, JOHN OGILBY, Eſquire, We were Graciouſly pleaſed by Our Warrant of the 25. of May, in the ſeventeenth Year of Our Reign, to grant him the ſole Privilege and Immunity of Printing in fair Volumes, Adorned with Sculptures, Virgil Tranſlated, Homer's Iliads, Æſop Paraphraſed, and Our Entertainment in Paſſing through Our City of London, and Coronation, together with Homer's Odyſſes, and his fore-mentioned Æſop with his Additions and Annotations in Folio, with a Prohibition, that none ſhould Print or Re-print the ſame in any Volumes, without the Conſent and Approbation of him, the ſaid John Ogilby, his Heirs, Executors, or Aſſigns, within the term of Fifteen Years next enſuing the Date of Our ſaid Warrant;[…]"
- "Both are Tranſlated into Engliſh, Illuſtrated with Sculptures, and Printed about two Years ago."
Etymology
From Middle English sculpture, from Old French sculpture, from Latin sculptūra (“sculpture”), from sculpō (“to cut out, to carve in stone”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: sculpture, sculptūra
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈskʌlpt͡ʃɚ/
- British English: /ˈskʌlptj(ʊ)ə/