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noun
The fine arts as a subject of study or expertise; understanding of arts and antiquities.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, uncountable
Topics: art, arts
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noun
Objets d'art collectively.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, uncountable
Topics: art, arts
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noun
Especially with reference to the writings of Machiavelli (1469–1527): the requisite qualities for political or military success; vitality, determination; power.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Moral worth; virtue, virtuousness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
artistic quality
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: virtu
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: quality
noun
love of or taste for fine objects of art
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: virtu, connoisseurship
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: taste, appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness
History
Borrowed from Italian virtù, †vertù (“moral worth, virtue (13th century); determination, perseverance, military valour (14th century); study of the liberal or fine arts; appreciation of, taste for, or expertise in the fine arts; objets d'art collectively (16th century)”); or from French vertu (“virtue”), ultimately from Latin virtūt-, virtus (“virtue”). Doublet of virtue; compare also virtuoso.
Across languages
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
