sculptor

[skuhlp-ter]

noun

genitive

Sculptoris 

1. a person who practices the art of sculpture.

2. (initial capital letter),  a southern constellation between Phoenix and Cetus.

Sculptor

¹

/ ˈskʌlptə /

noun

1. a faint constellation in the S hemisphere between Phoenix and Cetus

sculptor

²

/ ˈskʌlptə /

noun

1. a person who practises sculpture

Word History and Origins

Origin of sculptor¹

First recorded before 1625–35; from Latin, equivalent to sculp(ere) “to carve” + -tor -tor

Example Sentences

Perhaps the strangest sculptures in the show are a selection of flowing beards, symbol of maturity and wisdom, which derive from the long, lavish one the great Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi sported.

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The fruits of that discovery are the nearly 80 works on view at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in “Ministry: Reverend Joyce McDonald,” the sculptor’s first solo museum exhibition.

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Zhong likens this to a sculptor chiseling away at marble until the final form emerges.

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Every day I go to the Temple of the Sun to deliver new pictures to Omari and then watch the sculptors carving them into the obelisk.

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A Python On The Prom, which will be unveiled next April, was conceived by the sculptor Nick Elphick, after consultation with Pythons Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam, the Jones family and local groups.

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Related Words

• artist 
• carver