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Definition of Sculptor
1. Noun. An artist who creates sculptures.
Specialized synonyms: Praxiteles, Bartholdi, Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, Bernini, Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Brancusi, Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Calder, Calder, Benvenuto Cellini, Cellini, Crawford, Thomas Crawford, Donatello, Donato Di Betto Bardi, Epstein, Jacob Epstein, Sir Jacob Epstein, Daniel Chester French, French, Alberto Giacometti, Giacometti, Barbara Hepworth, Dame Barbara Hepworth, Hepworth, Hoffman, Malvina Hoffman, Gaston Lachaise, Lachaise, Da Vinci, Leonardo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lin, Maya Lin, Jacques Lipchitz, Lipchitz, Lysippus, Aristide Maillol, Maillol, Michelangelo, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Amedeo Modigliano, Modigliani, Henry Moore, Henry Spencer Moore, Moore, Louise Nevelson, Nevelson, Isamu Noguchi, Noguchi, Claes Oldenburg, Claes Thure Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Pheidias, Phidias, Pablo Picasso, Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Francois Auguste Rene Rodin, Rodin, George Segal, Segal, David Roland Smith, David Smith, Smith, Lorado Taft, Taft
Generic synonyms: Artist, Creative Person
Specialized synonyms: Sculptress
Derivative terms: Carve, Sculpt, Sculpt, Sculpture, Sculpture
2. Noun. A faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Phoenix and Cetus.
Definition of Sculptor
1. n. One who sculptures; one whose occupation is to carve statues, or works of sculpture.
Definition of Sculptor
1. Proper noun. (constellation) A dim spring constellation of the southern sky. It lies between Aquarius and Phoenix and lies in the direction of the southern pole of the Milky Way. ¹
2. Noun. A person who sculpts. An artist who produces sculpture. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sculptor
1. one that sculpts [n -S] - See also: sculpts
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sculptor
Literary usage of Sculptor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"AN WILTON, JOSEPH (1722-180S), sculptor and royal academician, born in London
... In 1747 Wilton went, in company with his fellow-sculptor, Louis Francois ..."
2. The History of American Sculpture by Lorado Taft (1903)
"The young sculptor is not Milmore, though Mr. French was reminded, after the sphinx
... By these ingenious and happy devices the sculptor has succeeded to a ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"He is a well- known sculptor and statuary, and these are his professional ...
When a sculptor has produced his clay model, unless he is himself an editor, ..."
4. The Life of Edwin Forrest: With Reminiscences and Personal Recollections by James Rees (1874)
"As that gentleman's impersonation of the character furnished the subject for a
celebrated sculptor to produce a marble portrait statue of the eminent ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"In such pictures as these the flesh tones are particularly remarkable, being
sometimes styled marble-like and due to his early training as a sculptor and ..."
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