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VERTU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vertu mean? 

VERTU (noun)
  The noun VERTU has 2 senses:

1. love of or taste for fine objects of artplay

2. artistic qualityplay

  Familiarity information: VERTU used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


VERTU (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Love of or taste for fine objects of art

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

connoisseurship; vertu; virtu

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

appreciation; discernment; perceptiveness; taste (delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values))


Sense 2

Meaning:

Artistic quality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

vertu; virtu

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

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)


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