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Art

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English

Etymology

From Latin ars, art

Noun

art (uncountable)

  1. Human effort to imitate, supplement , alter, or counteract the work of nature
  2. The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium
  3. The study and the product of these processes
  4. Aesthetic value
  5. (printing) Artwork

art (countable)

  1. A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet , or literature
  2. A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts
  3. Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation

Translations

  • Basque: arte
  • Breton: arz m -où
  • Catalan: art f m (in plural only f)
  • Chinese, Traditional: 藝術
  • Czech: umění n
  • Dutch: kunst f
  • Danish: kunst
  • Esperanto: arto
  • Finnish: taide
  • French: art m
  • German: Kunst f
  • Greek: τέχνη f, επιτηδειότητα f
  • Ido: arto
  • Indonesian: seni
  • Italian: arte f
  • Japanese: 芸術 (げいじゅつ, geijutsu)
  • Latin: ars
  • Polish: sztuka f, umiejętność f
  • Portuguese: arte f
  • Romanian: artă f
  • Slovak: umenie n
  • Slovene: umetnost
  • Spanish: arte m
  • Swedish: konst c
  • Turkish: sanat [-tı]

Derived terms

Intransitive verb form

art

  1. (archaic) Second-person singular of to be.
    How great thou art!

Translations

  • Czech: jsi , jseš
  • French: es
  • German: bist
  • Greek, Modern: είσαι
  • Italian: sei
  • Latin: es
  • Slovak: si
  • Spanish: eres

Catalan

Noun

art f and m (plural arts f)

  1. art (something pleasing to the mind)

French

Noun

art m (plural arts)

  1. art (something pleasing to the mind)

German

Noun

Art f

  1. kind, sort, type

Swedish

Noun

art (plural arter , definite singular arten , definite plural arterna )

  1. species


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