art

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[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ɑːt/, SAMPA: /A:t/
• (US) IPA: /ɑɹt/, SAMPA: /Ar\t/
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• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)t

[edit] Etymology 1

From Old French art.

[edit] Noun

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.

[edit] Synonyms

• (Human effort): creation, grandeur, wonder

[edit] Antonyms

• (Human effort): mundacity, nature, subsistence

[edit] Quotations

• 2005: "I tell her what Donald Hall says: that the problem with workshops is that they trivialize art by minimizing the terror." -July Harper's, Lynn Freed

[edit] Derived terms

• Look at pages starting with art.

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[edit] Etymology 2

From Old English eart, second singular of beon-wesan, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es-.

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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] Anagrams

• rat
• tar

[edit] Catalan

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art f and m (plural: arts f.)

1. art (something pleasing to the mind)

[edit] Crimean Tatar

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art

1. back

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• arqa, sırt

[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 (nominative: ars).

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art m. (plural arts)

1. art (something pleasing to the mind)

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• artiste
• neuvième art

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art

1. plough

[edit] Maltese

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From Arabic ارض (’arɖ)

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art f.

1. earth

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art

1. species

[edit] Turkish

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art

1. back