ARTS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does arts mean? 

• ARTS (noun)
  The noun ARTS has 1 sense:

1. studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)

  Familiarity information: ARTS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARTS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

arts; humanistic discipline; humanities; liberal arts

Context example:

the college of arts and sciences

Hypernyms ("arts" is a kind of...):

bailiwick; discipline; field; field of study; study; subject; subject area; subject field (a branch of knowledge)

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

Occidentalism (the scholarly knowledge of western cultures and languages and people)

quadrivium ((Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy)

trivium ((Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric; considered to be a triple way to eloquence)

stemmatics; stemmatology (the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis))

Sinology (the study of Chinese history and language and culture)

musicology (the scholarly and scientific study of music)

linguistics; philology (the humanistic study of language and literature)

library science (the study of the principles and practices of library administration)

literary study (the humanistic study of literature)

philosophy (the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics)

Oriental Studies; Orientalism (the scholarly knowledge of Asian cultures and languages and people)

neoclassicism (revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation)

performing arts (arts or skills that require public performance)

beaux arts; fine arts (the study and creation of visual works of art)

chronology (the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events)

art history (the academic discipline that studies the development of painting and sculpture)

history (the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings)

English (the discipline that studies the English language and literature)

interior design (the art of designing the interior decoration for a house, office, or other architectural space)

Romantic Movement; Romanticism (a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization)

classicalism; classicism (a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms)

 Context examples 

Or you may be ready to start your own podcast series, app, or blog or work on any other project centered on one of the communicative arts.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Perjury, oppression, subornation, fraud, pandarism, and the like infirmities, were among the most excusable arts they had to mention; and for these I gave, as it was reasonable, great allowance.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

How many arts do you understand?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

However, I will use all the magic arts I know of to keep you from harm.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Undoubtedly, replied Darcy, to whom this remark was chiefly addressed, there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

A class of professional or vocational positions of employment that involve arts, design, entertainment, sports or media.

(Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports and Media Occupations, NCI Thesaurus)

She was a bachelor of arts.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Men who before this change seemed to have been hid in caves dispersed themselves and were employed in various arts of cultivation.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Meg had spent the time in working as well as waiting, growing womanly in character, wise in housewifely arts, and prettier than ever, for love is a great beautifier.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A master's degree in an area of visual, literary or performing arts typically requiring two to three years of study beyond the bachelor level.

(Master of Fine Arts, NCI Thesaurus)