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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sculptor \Sculp"tor\, noun [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) 2.0 [wn]:
sculptor
noun
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
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