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Most common English words: I've « longer « paid « #477: art » neither » suddenly » act

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Middle English art from Old French art from Latin artem, accusative of ars "art". Displaced native Middle English liste "art" (from Old English list).

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art (countable and uncountable; plural arts)

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  1. (uncountable) Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature.
  2. (uncountable) The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
    There is a debate as to whether graffiti is art or vandalism.
  3. (uncountable) Activity intended to make something special.
  4. (uncountable) A re-creation of reality according to the artist's metaphysical value judgements.
  5. (uncountable) The study and the product of these processes.
  6. (uncountable) Aesthetic value.
  7. (uncountable, printing) Artwork.
  8. (countable) A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
  9. (countable) A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.
  10. (countable) Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
    • 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 217:
      A physician was immediately sent for; but on the first moment of beholding the corpse, he declared that Elvira's recovery was beyond the power of art.
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From Middle English, from Old English eart ((thou) art), second person singular present indicative of beon-wesan, from Proto-Germanic *ar-t ((thou) art", originally, "(thou) becamest), second person singular preterite indicative form of *iranan (to rise, be quick, become active), from Proto-Indo-European *er-, *or(w)- (to lift, rise, set in motion). Cognate with Icelandic ert (art), Old English earon (are), from the same preterite-present Germanic verb. More at are.

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art

  1. (archaic) Second-person singular simple present tense indicative of be.
    How great thou art!

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[edit] Albanian

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From Latin ars.

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art m. (definite singular arti)

  1. art

[edit] Catalan

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art (epicene plural, arts) f.

  1. art (something pleasing to the mind)

[edit] Cornish

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From Latin ars, artis (art).

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art

  1. art

[edit] Crimean Tatar

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art

  1. back

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[edit] Danish

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From Middle Low German art.

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art c. (singular definite arten, plural indefinite arter)

  1. kind
  2. nature
  3. species

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[edit] French

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From Latin artem, accusative singular of ars.

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art m. (plural arts)

  1. art (something pleasing to the mind)

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art

  1. plough

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From Arabic ارض (’arɖ).

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art f.

  1. earth

[edit] Old Irish

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From Proto-Celtic *arto- (bear) (compare Cornish arth, Welsh arth) < Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos (bear).

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art m.

  1. bear

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art

  1. species

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[edit] Turkish

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From Proto-Turkic *hārt (back).

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art

  1. back
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