sculpture

sculpture is a 9-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 18 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials.
2. noun. Carved work modeled of, or cut upon, wood, stone, metal, etc.
3. transitive verb. To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave.
4. noun. creating figures or designs in three dimensions

   Synonyms: carving

5. noun. a three-dimensional work of plastic art
6. verb. 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"

   Synonyms: grave, sculpt

7. verb. create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material

   "sculpt a swan out of a block of ice"

   Synonyms: sculpt

Synonyms

carving, grave, sculpt

Common word forms

sculptured, sculpturer, sculptures, sculpturing

Words from these letters

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