ART FORM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does art form mean? 

• ART FORM (noun)
  The noun ART FORM has 1 sense:

1. (architecture) a form of artistic expression (such as writing or painting or architecture)

  Familiarity information: ART FORM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ART FORM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(architecture) a form of artistic expression (such as writing or painting or architecture)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("art form" is a kind of...):

form; kind; sort; variety (a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality)

Domain category:

architecture (the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "art form"):

architectural style; style of architecture; type of architecture (architecture as a kind of art form)

sonata form (the form of a movement, which consists of exposition and development and recapitulation)

 Context examples 

And so with the stage, with sculpture, with opera, with every art form.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)