noun
Meaning 1
plural of humanity
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
humanities
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /hjuˈmæn.ɪ.tiz/
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CMU ARPABET: HH Y UW0 M AE1 N IH0 T IY0 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: Y UW0 M AE1 N IH0 T IY0 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Synonym of classical studies: the study of Ancient Greek and Latin, their literature, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, plural, plural-only
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: classical studies
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The study of language, literature, the arts, history, and philosophy, sometimes including religion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: belles-lettres, arts
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the college of arts and sciences
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: humanistic discipline, liberal arts, arts
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick
Narrower terms: neoclassicism, classicism, classicalism, Romanticism, Romantic Movement, English, history, art history, chronology, fine arts, beaux arts, performing arts, Occidentalism, Orientalism, Oriental Studies, philosophy, literary study, library science, linguistics, philology, musicology, Sinology, stemmatology, stemmatics, trivium, quadrivium
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
38 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Burmese: ဝိဇ္ဇာပညာ (wijjapa.nya) — language, literature, etc.
- Catalan: humanitats — language, literature, etc.
- Chinese Mandarin: 人文科學 /人文科学 (rénwén kēxué) — language, literature, etc.
- Danish: humaniora — language, literature, etc.
- Dutch: geesteswetenschappen — language, literature, etc.
- Esperanto: homa scienco — language, literature, etc.
- Estonian: humanitaarained — language, literature, etc.
- Estonian: humaniora — language, literature, etc.
- Faroese: hugvísindi — language, literature, etc.
- Finnish: humanismi — language, literature, etc.
- French: sciences humaines — language, literature, etc.
- German: Geisteswissenschaften — language, literature, etc.
- German: Humanwissenschaften — language, literature, etc.
- Greek: ανθρωπιστικές επιστήμες (anthropistikés epistímes) — language, literature, etc.
- Greek: θεωρητικές επιστήμες (theoritikés epistímes) — language, literature, etc.
- Hindi: मानविकी (mānvikī) — language, literature, etc.
- Hungarian: humán tárgyak — language, literature, etc.
- Icelandic: hugvísindi — language, literature, etc.
- Indonesian: humaniora — language, literature, etc.
- Italian: scienze umanistiche — language, literature, etc.
- Japanese: 人文科学 (jinbun kagaku) — language, literature, etc.
- Japanese: 人文学 (jinbungaku) — language, literature, etc.
- Korean: 인문학 (inmunhak) — language, literature, etc.
- Norwegian Bokmål: humaniora — language, literature, etc.
- Norwegian Nynorsk: humaniora — language, literature, etc.
- Polish: humanistyka — language, literature, etc.
- Polish: nauki humanistyczne — language, literature, etc.
- Portuguese: humanas — language, literature, etc.
- Romanian: umanioare — language, literature, etc.
- Russian: гуманита́рные нау́ки (gumanitárnyje naúki) — language, literature, etc.
- Slovak: spoločenské vedy — language, literature, etc.
- Spanish: humanidades — language, literature, etc.
- Spanish: letras humanas — language, literature, etc.
- Swedish: humaniora — language, literature, etc.
- Tagalog: katuruang-tao — language, literature, etc.
- Thai: ศิลปศาสตร์ (sǐn-lá-bpà-sàat) — language, literature, etc.
- Turkish: beşerî bilimler — language, literature, etc.
- Vietnamese: khoa học nhân văn — language, literature, etc.
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