LIBERAL ARTS
Dictionary entry overview: What does liberal arts mean?
• LIBERAL ARTS (noun)
The noun LIBERAL ARTS has 1 sense:
1. studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
Familiarity information: LIBERAL ARTS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• LIBERAL ARTS (noun)
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 ("liberal arts" is a kind of...):
bailiwick; branch of knowledge; discipline; field; field of study; study; subject; subject area; subject field (a branch of knowledge)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "liberal arts"):
neoclassicism (revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation)
philosophy (the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics)
literary study (the humanistic study of literature)
library science (the study of the principles and practices of library administration)
linguistics; philology (the humanistic study of language and literature)
musicology (the scholarly and scientific study of music)
Sinology (the study of Chinese history and language and culture)
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))
trivium ((Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric; considered to be a triple way to eloquence)
Oriental Studies; Orientalism (the scholarly knowledge of Asian cultures and languages and people)
Occidentalism (the scholarly knowledge of Western cultures and languages and people)
classicalism; classicism (a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms)
Romantic Movement; Romanticism (a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization)
English (the discipline that studies the English language and literature)
history (the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings)
art history (the academic discipline that studies the development of painting and sculpture)
chronology (the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events)
beaux arts; fine arts (the study and creation of visual works of art)
performing arts (arts or skills that require public performance)
quadrivium ((Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy)
