VIRTU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does virtu mean? 

• VIRTU (noun)
  The noun VIRTU has 3 senses:

1. love of or taste for fine objects of art

2. artistic quality

3. objet d'art collectively (especially fine antiques)

  Familiarity information: VIRTU used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIRTU (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 ("virtu" 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 ("virtu" is a kind of...):

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

Objet d'art collectively (especially fine antiques)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

art object; objet d'art; piece (a work of art of some artistic value)