"wood carving" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: wood carvings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} wood carving (countable and uncountable, plural wood carvings)
  1. (uncountable) The art of carving wood to make decorative objects. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Crafts Translations (art): дърворезбарство (dǎrvorezbarstvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), 木雕 (muk⁶ diu¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 木雕 (mùdiāo) (Chinese Mandarin), řezbářství [neuter] (Czech), puunleikkaus (Finnish), Holzschnitzerei [feminine] (German), ceardaíocht adhmaid [feminine] (Irish), snoíodóireacht adhmaid [feminine] (Irish), snoí adhmaid [masculine] (Irish), резбарство (rezbarstvo) [neuter] (Macedonian), копаничарство (kopaničarstvo) [neuter] (Macedonian), treskjæring [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), treskjering [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), treskurd [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), резьба́ по де́реву (rezʹbá po dérevu) [feminine] (Russian), träsnideri [neuter] (Swedish), täljande [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-wood_carving-en-noun-38OtGQ5Y Disambiguation of 'art': 100 0 0
  2. (countable) A carved wooden object. Tags: countable Translations (object): дърворезба (dǎrvorezba) [feminine] (Bulgarian), puuleikkaustyö (Finnish), snoiteán adhmaid [masculine] (Irish), chiena [feminine, plural] (Ladin), treskurd [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), träsnideri [neuter] (Swedish), täljd figur (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-wood_carving-en-noun-hg-ARxhm Disambiguation of 'object': 24 76 0
  3. (countable) A decoration made on wood by carving. Tags: countable Translations (decoration): puuleikkaus (Finnish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: woodcarving Hypernyms: woodworking Related terms: woodcarver Coordinate_terms: whittling [noun]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (ca09fec and c40eb85). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.