art
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From Old French art.
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art (countable and uncountable; plural arts)
- (uncountable) Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature.
- (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.
- (uncountable) Activity intended to make something special
- (uncountable) A recreation of reality according to the artist's metaphysical value-judgements
- (uncountable) The study and the product of these processes.
- (uncountable) Aesthetic value.
- (uncountable, printing) Artwork.
- (countable) A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
- (countable) A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.
- (countable) Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
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- (Human effort): mundacity, nature, subsistence
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- 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
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terms derived from art
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art
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art f and m (plural: arts f.)
- art (something pleasing to the mind)
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art
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art
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From Latin artem (nominative: ars).
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art m. (plural arts)
- art (something pleasing to the mind)
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art
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From Arabic ارض (’arɖ)
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art f.
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| Inflection for art | Singular | Plural | ||
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| Common | Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite |
| Nominative | art | arten | arter | arterna |
| Genitive | arts | artens | arters | arternas |
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art
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