liberal arts

English

Etymology

Calque of Latin artēs līberālēs.

Pronunciation

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Noun

liberal arts pl (plural only)

1. The academic course of instruction intended to provide general knowledge and usually comprising the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, as opposed to professional or technical subjects.

   Antonyms: artes mechanicae, artes serviles, mechanical arts, servile arts

2. The trivium and the quadrivium.

Related terms

• liberal science

Translations

academic course of instruction intended to provide general knowledge

• Burmese: ဝိဇ္ဇာပညာ (wijjapa.nya)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 通識教育 / 通识教育 (zh) (tōngshí jiàoyù), 博雅教育 (bóyǎ jiàoyù)

• Finnish: vapaat taiteet pl
• French: arts libéraux m pl
• Georgian: ჰუმანიტარული მეცნიერებები (humaniṭaruli mecnierebebi)
• Greek: ελευθέριες τέχνες f pl (elefthéries téchnes)
• Hungarian: bölcsészet (hu), bölcsészettudomány (hu), általános műveltséget oktató tudományok pl
• Indonesian: studi humanitas
• Latin: artes liberales
• Malay: sastera liberal, seni liberal (Singapore)
• Polish: sztuki wyzwolone nvir
• Romanian: arte liberale f pl
• Spanish: artes liberales
• Swedish: de fria konsterna c pl
• Tagalog: malayang sining
• Thai: ศิลปศาสตร์ (th) (sǐn-lá-bpà-sàat)
• Turkish: liberal sanatlar, özgür sanatlar

the trivium and the quadrivium

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三艺四术

• Czech: svobodná umění n pl
• Finnish: vapaat taiteet pl, vapaat taidot pl
• Hungarian: hét szabad művészet/mesterség
• Polish: sztuki wyzwolone nvir