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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
Example:
the college of arts and sciences
Synonyms:
arts; humanistic discipline; humanities; liberal arts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("arts" is a kind of...):
bailiwick; discipline; field; field of study; study; subject; subject area; subject field (a branch of knowledge)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "arts"):
quadrivium ((Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy)
trivium ((Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric; considered to be a triple way to eloquence)
stemmatics; stemmatology (the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis))
Sinology (the study of Chinese history and language and culture)
musicology (the scholarly and scientific study of music)
linguistics; philology (the humanistic study of language and literature)
library science (the study of the principles and practices of library administration)
literary study (the humanistic study of literature)
philosophy (the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics)
Oriental Studies; Orientalism (the scholarly knowledge of Asian cultures and languages and people)
Occidentalism (the scholarly knowledge of western cultures and languages and people)
performing arts (arts or skills that require public performance)
beaux arts; fine arts (the study and creation of visual works of art)
chronology (the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events)
art history (the academic discipline that studies the development of painting and sculpture)
history (the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings)
English (the discipline that studies the English language and literature)
interior design (the art of designing the interior decoration for a house, office, or other architectural space)
Romantic Movement; Romanticism (a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization)
classicalism; classicism (a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms)
neoclassicism (revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation)
Context examples:
A bachelor's degree in arts awarded to students seeking a professional education in the visual or performing arts.
(Bachelor of Fine Arts, NCI Thesaurus)
A bachelor's degree in the liberal arts, usually awarded for studies in the social sciences or humanities.
(Bachelor of Arts, NCI Thesaurus)
Still stronger, however, had been the influence of the great French war; for, however well matched the nations might be in martial exercises, there could be no question but that our neighbors were infinitely superior to us in the arts of peace.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I have seen in his face a far different expression from that which hardens it now while she is so vivaciously accosting him; but then it came of itself: it was not elicited by meretricious arts and calculated manoeuvres; and one had but to accept it—to answer what he asked without pretension, to address him when needful without grimace—and it increased and grew kinder and more genial, and warmed one like a fostering sunbeam.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Without studying the business, however, or knowing what he was about, Edmund was beginning, at the end of a week of such intercourse, to be a good deal in love; and to the credit of the lady it may be added that, without his being a man of the world or an elder brother, without any of the arts of flattery or the gaieties of small talk, he began to be agreeable to her.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I had no reason to believe that Littimer understood such arts himself; he never led me to suppose anything of the kind, by so much as the vibration of one of his respectable eyelashes; yet whenever he was by, while we were practising, I felt myself the greenest and most inexperienced of mortals.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Neptune is the planet of the arts but also of unconditional love, compassion, inspiration, and imagination, and will give you heaps of these good qualities at this time.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
But the last of these is wholly applied to what may be useful in life, to the improvement of agriculture, and all mechanical arts; so that among us, it would be little esteemed.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
She placed a bar of iron in the middle of the kitchen floor, and then by her magic arts made the iron invisible to human eyes.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
She was a bachelor of arts, but he had gone beyond her limitations.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
