Sculptor

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sculptor \Sculp"tor\, n. [L. sculptor, fr. sculpere, sculptum,
     to carve; cf. scalpere to cut, carve, scratch, and Gr. ? to
     carve: cf. F. sculpteur.]
     1. One who sculptures; one whose occupation is to carve
        statues, or works of sculpture.
        [1913 Webster]


  
     2. Hence, an artist who designs works of sculpture, his first
        studies and his finished model being usually in a plastic
        material, from which model the marble is cut, or the
        bronze is cast.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sculptor
       n 1: an artist who creates sculptures [syn: {sculpturer}, {carver},
             {statue maker}]
       2: a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near
          Phoenix and Cetus

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  70 Moby Thesaurus words for "sculptor":
     Arp, CYSP sculpture, French, Maillol, Michelangelo, Milles, Moore,
     Oldenburg, Phidias, Picasso, Pisano, Praxiteles, Saint-Gaudens,
     anaglyptics, anaglyptography, architectural sculpture,
     bone-carving, carver, casting, ceroplastics, chaser, chasing,
     clay modeler, clay sculpture, decorative sculpture, earth art,
     earth artist, embossing, engraving, figurer, figuriste, founding,
     garden sculpture, gem carver, gem-cutting, glass sculpture,
     glyptic, graver, ivory-carving, lost-wax process, mason,
     metal sculpture, modeler, modeling, molder, molding,
     monumental mason, monumental sculpture, paper sculpture,
     plaster casting, plastic art, portrait sculpture, relief,
     relief-carving, relievo, sculptress, sculpture, sculpturer,
     sculpturing, shell-carving, statuary, stone sculpture, stonecutter,
     stonecutting, wax modeler, whittling, wire sculpture, wood carver,
     wood carving, xyloglyphy