SCULPTOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sculptor mean? 

• SCULPTOR (noun)
  The noun SCULPTOR has 2 senses:

1. an artist who creates sculptures

2. a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Phoenix and Cetus

  Familiarity information: SCULPTOR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCULPTOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An artist who creates sculptures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

carver; sculptor; sculpturer; statue maker

Hypernyms ("sculptor" is a kind of...):

artist; creative person (a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sculptor"):

sculptress (a woman sculptor)

Instance hyponyms:

Jacques Lipchitz; Lipchitz (United States sculptor (born in Lithuania) who pioneered cubist sculpture (1891-1973))

Lorado Taft; Taft (United States sculptor (1860-1936))

Lysippus (Greek sculptor (4th century BC))

Aristide Maillol; Maillol (French sculptor of monumental female nudes (1861-1944))

Michelangelo; Michelangelo Buonarroti (Florentine sculptor and painter and architect; one of the outstanding figures of the Renaissance (1475-1564))

Amedeo Modigliano; Modigliani (Italian painter and sculptor (1884-1920))

Henry Moore; Henry Spencer Moore; Moore (British sculptor whose works are monumental organic forms (1898-1986))

Louise Nevelson; Nevelson (United States sculptor (born in Russia) known for massive shapes of painted wood (1899-1988))

Isamu Noguchi; Noguchi (United States sculptor (1904-1988))

Claes Oldenburg; Claes Thure Oldenburg; Oldenburg (United States sculptor (born in Sweden); a leader of the pop art movement who was noted for giant sculptures of common objects (born in 1929))

Pheidias; Phidias (ancient Greek sculptor (circa 500-432 BC))

Pablo Picasso; Picasso (prolific and influential Spanish artist who lived in France (1881-1973))

Auguste Rodin; Francois Auguste Rene Rodin; Rodin (French sculptor noted for his renderings of the human form (1840-1917))

George Segal; Segal (United States sculptor (born in 1924))

David Roland Smith; David Smith; Smith (United States sculptor (1906-1965))

Praxiteles (ancient Greek sculptor (circa 370-330 BC))

Lin; Maya Lin (United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959))

da Vinci; Leonardo; Leonardo da Vinci (Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519))

Gaston Lachaise; Lachaise (United States sculptor (born in France) noted for his large nude figures (1882-1935))

Hoffman; Malvina Hoffman (United States sculptor (1887-1966))

Barbara Hepworth; Dame Barbara Hepworth; Hepworth (British sculptor (1902-1975))

Alberto Giacometti; Giacometti (Swiss sculptor and painter known for his bronze sculptures of elongated figures (1901-1966))

Daniel Chester French; French (United States sculptor who created the seated marble figure of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. (1850-1931))

Epstein; Jacob Epstein; Sir Jacob Epstein (British sculptor (born in the United States) noted for busts and large controversial works (1880-1959))

Donatello; Donato di Betto Bardi (Florentine sculptor famous for his lifelike sculptures (1386-1466))

Crawford; Thomas Crawford (United States neoclassical sculptor (1814-1857))

Benvenuto Cellini; Cellini (Italian sculptor (1500-1571))

Alexander Calder; Calder (United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976))

Brancusi; Constantin Brancusi (Romanian sculptor noted for abstractions of animal forms (1876-1957))

Bernini; Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (Italian sculptor and architect of the baroque period in Italy; designed many churches and chapels and tombs and fountains (1598-1680))

Bartholdi; Frederic Auguste Bartholdi (French sculptor best known for creating the Statue of Liberty now in New York harbor)

Derivation:

sculpt (shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it)

sculpt (create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Phoenix and Cetus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

constellation (a configuration of stars as seen from the earth)

 Context examples 

Some little time ago he purchased from Morse Hudson two duplicate plaster casts of the famous head of Napoleon by the French sculptor, Devine.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had often looked upon the mighty arms and neck of the smith, but I had never before seen him stripped to the waist, or understood the marvellous symmetry of development which had made him in his youth the favourite model of the London sculptors.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Miss Temple had looked down when he first began to speak to her; but she now gazed straight before her, and her face, naturally pale as marble, appeared to be assuming also the coldness and fixity of that material; especially her mouth, closed as if it would have required a sculptor's chisel to open it, and her brow settled gradually into petrified severity.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He had once been a skilful sculptor and had earned an honest living, but he had taken to evil courses and had twice already been in jail—once for a petty theft, and once, as we had already heard, for stabbing a fellow-countryman.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were, it is true, no finer or braver men in the room than Jackson and Jem Belcher, the one with his magnificent figure, his small waist and Herculean shoulders; the other as graceful as an old Grecian statue, with a head whose beauty many a sculptor had wished to copy, and with those long, delicate lines in shoulder and loins and limbs, which gave him the litheness and activity of a panther.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)