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QUADRIVIUM

• QUADRIVIUM (noun)
The noun QUADRIVIUM has 1 sense:

1. (Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy

Familiarity information: QUADRIVIUM used as a noun is very rare.

• QUADRIVIUM (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

(Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

arts; humanistic discipline; humanities; liberal arts (studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills))

Domain category:

Dark Ages; Middle Ages (the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance)

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(English proverb)
"A trustworthy person steals one's heart."
(Bhutanese proverb)
"Every sun has to set."
(Arabic proverb)
"Learned young is done old."
(Dutch proverb)

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