definition of the word art

• (UK) IPA: /ɑːt/, SAMPA: /A:t/
• (US) IPA: /ɑɹt/, SAMPA: /Ar\t/
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• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)t

From Old French art.

art (countable and uncountable; plural arts)

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1. (uncountable) Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature.
2. (uncountable) 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. (uncountable) Activity intended to make something special.
4. (uncountable) A recreation of reality according to the artist's metaphysical value-judgements.
5. (uncountable) The study and the product of these processes.
6. (uncountable) Aesthetic value.
7. (uncountable, printing) Artwork.
8. (countable) A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
9. (countable) A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.
10. (countable) Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
    • 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 217:

      A physician was immediately sent for; but on the first moment of beholding the corse, he declared that Elvira's recovery was beyond the power of art.

• (Human effort): creation, grandeur, wonder

• (Human effort): mundacity, nature, subsistence

• 2005: "I tell her what Donald Hall says: that the problem with workshops is that they trivialize art by minimizing the terror." -July Harper's, Lynn Freed

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