seven arts

noun

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

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Meanings

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