" arts "

[Noun]  | "art" | \ ˈärt \

1: skill acquired by experience, study, or observation

2: a branch of learning:

3: one of the humanities

Origin: 14th century ;

 Middle English, "craft, principles of a craft or a field of knowledge, one of the seven fields of study comprising the medieval school curriculum, practical knowledge, code of behavior," borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French, "skill, craft, knowledge, deceit, sorcery," borrowed from Latin art-, ars "acquired skill, craftsmanship, stratagem, behavior (in plural artēs), systematic body of knowledge and techniques, profession, artistic achievement," going back to Indo-European *h2r̥-ti- "act of fitting or joining" (whence also, perhaps from an adverbialized locative, Greek árti "just now," arti- "fitting, correct," Armenian ard "just now," Lithuanian artì "close by"), nominal derivative from the verbal base *h2er- "fit, join" {mat|arm:3|};

  * Note : M. de Vaan (Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages, Brill, 2008) also adduces from *h2r̥-ti- Old Avestan ārəiti- "reward" (Young Avestan aṣ̌i-). Compare, also with zero grade ablaut and -t- suffixes, Sanskrit ṛtáḥ "right, true," ṛtúḥ "fixed time, order, rule." See also {article:1|article:1}, {artiodactyl|artiodactyl}.;

[Noun]  | "arts and crafts" 

1: a movement in European and American design during the late 19th and early 20th centuries promoting handcraftsmanship over industrial mass production

Origin: 1888 ;

[Noun]  | "Arts and Crafts Movement" 

1: a time when many people were working together to make arts and crafts popular in the second half of the 19th century

[Noun]  | "industrial arts" 

1: a subject taught in elementary and secondary schools that aims at developing manual skill and familiarity with tools and machines

Origin: 1815 ;

[Plural noun]  | "beaux arts" | \ ˈbō-ˈzär \

1: fine arts

Origin: 1753 ;

 French beaux-arts;

[Plural noun]  | "graphic arts" 

1: the fine and applied arts of representation, decoration, and writing or printing on flat surfaces together with the techniques and crafts associated with them

Origin: 1858 ;

[Plural noun]  | "language arts" 

1: the subjects (such as reading, spelling, literature, and composition) that aim at developing the student's comprehension and capacity for use of written and oral language

Origin: 1896 ;

[Plural noun]  | "liberal arts" 

1: college or university studies (such as language, philosophy, literature, and abstract science) intended to provide chiefly general knowledge and to develop general intellectual capacities (such as reason and judgment) as opposed to professional or vocational skills

2: the medieval studies comprising the trivium and quadrivium

Origin: 14th century ;

[Adjective]  | "beaux arts" 

1: characterized by the use of historic forms, rich decorative detail, and a tendency toward monumental conception in architecture

Origin: 1878 ;

 French École des Beaux-Arts School of Fine Arts, in Paris;

[Noun phrase]  | "master of arts" 

1: the recipient of a master's degree that usually signifies that the recipient has passed an integrated course of study in one or more of the humanities and sometimes has completed a thesis involving research or a creative project and that typically requires two years of work beyond a bachelor's degree

2: the degree making one a master of arts —abbreviation MA, AM

Origin: 15th century ;

[Noun]  | "arts" 

[Noun]  | "art"