Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sculptor"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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 [syn: {Sculptor}]
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