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Liberal Arts

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Noun

1. arts, humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts

studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)

Example Sentences:
'the college of arts and sciences'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Liberal Arts

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plural noun
the fine arts, humanities, sociology, languages, and literature
. Often shortened to: arts

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Liberal Arts

see synonyms of liberal arts
1.  Obsolete
the subjects in the trivium, quadrivium
2. 
the subjects of an academic college course, including literature, philosophy, languages, history, and, usually, survey courses of the sciences, as distinguished from professional or technical subjects
sometimes referred to as arts, as in Bachelor of Arts

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Liberal Arts

see synonyms of liberal arts
pl.n.
1. Academic disciplines, including literature, history, languages, philosophy, mathematics, and general sciences, viewed in contrast to professional and technical disciplines.
2. The disciplines comprising the trivium and quadrivium.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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