arts
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
art1
▶noun
- 1 the expression or application of creative skill and imagination, especially through a visual medium such as painting or sculpture.
■ works produced in this way.
- 2 (the arts) the various branches of creative activity, such as painting, music, literature, and dance.
- 3 (arts) subjects of study primarily concerned with human culture (as contrasted with scientific or technical subjects).
- 4 a skill in a specified thing: the art of conversation.
– origin ME: via OFr. from L. ars, art-.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
art2
archaic or dialect second person singular present of be.
'arts' also found in these Oxford entries:
AB
- Academy award
- AM
- art
- art deco
- art history
- artisan
- artist
- arts and crafts
- arty
- arty-farty
- avant-garde
- BA
- BAFTA
- beaux arts
- black art
- black belt
- breakfall
- brown belt
- budo
- conservatoire
- conversazione
- cultural
- culturati
- culture
- culture vulture
- dilettante
- dojo
- drop kick
- fine art
- Grammy
- graphic arts
- graphics
- green belt
- iconography
- kata
- kumite
- kyu
- liberal arts
- liberal studies
- lock
- MA
- martial arts
- modernism
- muse
- mythography
- nunchaku
- Oscar
- performing arts
- perishable
