Definition of: sculpture

(skulp′chər) noun
1. The art of fashioning figures of stone, wood, clay, or bronze.
2. Figures or groups carved, cut, hewn, cast, or modeled in wood, stone, clay, or metal.
3. Raised or incised lines, or markings, as upon a shell.
—v.t. ·tured, ·tur·ing
1. To fashion, as statuary, by modeling, carving, or casting.
2. To represent or portray in sculpture.
3. To embellish with sculpture.
4. To change, as the face of a valley or canyon, by erosion and deposition. [<L sculputra <sculptus, pp. of sculpere carve in stone <scalpere cut]
—sculp′tur·al adjective