sculptor Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an artist who creates sculptures
    statue maker; carver; sculpturer.
  2. noun a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Phoenix and Cetus

WordNet


Sculp"tor noun
Etymology
L. sculptor, fr. sculpere, sculptum, to carve; cf. scalpere to cut, carve, scratch, and Gr. to carve: cf. F. sculpteur.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913