Sculpture

Origin

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin sculptura ("sculpture"), from sculpere ("to cut out, to carve in stone").

Full definition of sculpture

Noun

1. (uncountable) The art of shaping figures or designs in the round or in relief, professionally performed by a sculptor
2. (countable) A work of art created by sculpting.
• DrydenThere, too, in living sculpture, might be seen
  The mad affection of the Cretan queen.
3. Works of art created by sculpting, as a group.

Verb

1. To fashion something into a three-dimensional figure.
2. To represent something in sculpture.
3. To change the shape of a land feature by erosion etc.

Related terms

• sculpt
• sculptor
• sculptureless
• sculpturelike