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English

rank|I've|longer|paid|477|art|neither|suddenly|act

Pronunciation
(Received Pronunciation|UK) IPA|/��t/
audio|en-us-art.ogg|Audio (US)
rhymes|��(r)t

Etymology 1
From OF. art#French|art.

Noun
en-noun|s|-
wikipedia

1. uncountable human|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|Aesthetic value.
7. context|uncountable|printing artwork|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|Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.

Synonyms
(Human effort): creation, grandeur, wonder

Antonyms
(Human effort): mundacity, nature, subsistence

Quotations
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

Translations

Albanian: art m
Arabic: ARchar|�� (fan) m
Aragonese: arte f
Asturian: arte f
Basque: arte
Breton: arz m, arzoù
Bulgarian: изк���во (izkustvo) n
Catalan: art m|f (in plural only f)
Chinese: ��, �� (yì shù)
Corsican: arti f
Croatian: umjetnost f
Czech: um�ní n
Danish: kunst g|Danish
Dutch: kunst f
Esperanto: arto
Finnish: taide
French: art m
Frisian: keunst f
Galician: arti f
German: Kunst f
Greek: �έ�νη (tekhni) f, ε�ι�ηδει��η�α (epitidiotita) f
Hebrew: ��נ�ת (omanut) f
Hungarian: művészet
Icelandic: list f
Ido: arto
Indonesian: seni
Interlingua: arte
Interlingue: arte
Italian: arte f
Japanese: �� (�����, geijutsu)
Kurdish:
:Kurmanji:huner f,
:Sorani:KUchar|�����ر
mid
Latin: ars f
Latvian: menas g|Latvian
Limburgish: kuns
Low Saxon: kunst f
Luxembourgish: Konscht f
Malay: seni
Maltese: arti f
Maori: toi
Nahuatl: toltecayotl
Norwegian: kunst m
Novial: arte
Occitan: arti, ars f
Ossetian: аивад (aivad)
Persian: FAchar|��ر (honar)
Polish: sztuka f, umiej�tno�� f
Portuguese: arte f
Romanian: art� f
Russian: и�к����во (iskússtvo) n
Sardinian (Campidanese): arti f
Scots: airt
Serbian: umetnost f
Sicilian: arti f
Slovak: umenie#Slovak|umenie n
Slovene: umetnost f
Spanish: arte m|f
Swahili: usanifu
Swedish: konst c
Telugu: �ళ
Turkish: sanat [-tı]
Ukrainian: ми��е��во (misteshtvo) n
Vietnamese: ngh� thuật, ngh�-thuật (rare) (��)
Yiddish: ק�נס� (kunst) m|f

Related terms
rel-top|terms derived from art
art collection
art deco
artefact, artifact
art exhibition
art for art's sake
art form
artful
art gallery
art historian
art history
art house
artifice
artificial
artisan
artist
artiste
artistic
artless
art nouveau
art paper
rel-mid
art school
arts degree
arts and crafts
art student
artsy
artsy-craftsy
art therapy
art union
artwork
arty
arty-farty
Bachelor of Arts
black art, black arts
down to a fine art<!--do something ..., get something..., have something...-->
fine arts
liberal arts
Master of Arts
term of art
work of art
rel-bottom

Etymology 2

Verb
art

1. archaic Second-person singular simple present tense indicative of be.

#:How great thou art!

See also
top2
am
are
be
being
been
mid2
beest
was
wast
were
wert

<!--these belong on the page for "be"Translations
Czech: jsi, jseš
French: es#French|es
Finnish: olla#Finnish|olet
German: bist
Italian: sei
Latin: es#Latin|es
Lithuanian: menas
Polish: jeste�
Portuguese: és
Slovak: si#Slovak|si
Spanish: eres-->

Anagrams
rat
tar

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Catalan

Noun
art f and m (plural: arts f)

1. art (something pleasing to the mind)

Crimean Tatar

Noun
art

1. back

Category:Crimean Tatar nouns

Danish

Noun
art

1. kind
2. nature
3. species

Category:Danish nouns

French

Etymology
From L. artem (nominative: ars).

Noun
art m (plural: arts)

1. art (something pleasing to the mind)

Latvian

Verb
art

1. plough

Category:Latvian verbs

Maltese

Etymology
From Arabic ارض (�ar�)

Noun
art f

1. earth

Category:Maltese nouns

Swedish
sv-noun|gender=Common|art|arten|arter|arterna|arts|artens|arters|arternas

Pronunciation
audio|Sv-art.ogg|audio

Noun
art

1. species

Turkish

Noun
art

1. back

Category:Turkish nouns

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