Phrase guide
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noun
The academic course of instruction intended to provide general knowledge and usually comprising the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, as opposed to professional or technical subjects.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: artes mechanicae, artes serviles, mechanical arts, servile arts
noun
The trivium and the quadrivium.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: humanistic discipline, humanities, 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
Calque of Latin artēs līberālēs.
Across languages
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
