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CARVER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who carves the meat

Synonyms:

carver; cutter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

diner (a person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant))

Derivation:

carve (cut to pieces)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An artist who creates sculptures

Synonyms:

carver; sculptor; sculpturer; statue maker

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("carver" 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 "carver"):

sculptress (a woman sculptor)

Instance hyponyms:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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))

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lysippus (Greek sculptor (4th century BC))

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

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)

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

Derivation:

carve (form by carving)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Makes decorative wooden panels

Synonyms:

carver; woodcarver

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

woodman; woodsman; woodworker (makes things out of wood)

Derivation:

carve (engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface)

Sense 4

Meaning:

United States botanist and agricultural chemist who developed many uses for peanuts and soy beans and sweet potatoes (1864-1943)

Synonyms:

Carver; George Washington Carver

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

botanist; phytologist; plant scientist (a biologist specializing in the study of plants)

chemist (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)

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