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seven arts

seven arts noun: the traditional subdivision of the arts into music, sculpture, painting, literature, architecture, performing, and film.

Noun

seven arts pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) The traditional subdivision of the arts into music, sculpture, painting, literature, architecture, performing, and film.
  2. (plural, plural-only) The trivium and quadrivium of liberal arts, consisting of grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy.

Questions about seven arts

What does seven arts mean?
Seven arts means the traditional subdivision of the arts into music, sculpture, painting, literature, architecture, performing, and film.
What part of speech is seven arts?
Seven arts is a noun.

Words near seven arts in the dictionary

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