English noun: art |
1. | art (artifact) the products of human creativity; works of art collectively |
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| Samples | An art exhibition. A fine collection of art.
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| Synonyms | fine art |
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| Broader (hypernym) | creation |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | artificial flower, commercial art, cyberart, dance, decoupage, diptych, gem, genre, graphic art, grotesque, kitsch, mosaic, plastic art, treasure, triptych, work of art |
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| Domain category | art, artistic creation, artistic production |
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2. | art (act) the creation of beautiful or significant things |
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| Samples | Art does not need to be innovative to be good. I was never any good at art. He said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully.
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| Synonyms | artistic creation, artistic production |
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| Broader (hypernym) | creation, creative activity |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | arts and crafts, carving, ceramics, decalcomania, decoupage, drafting, draftsmanship, drawing, gastronomy, glyptography, origami, painting, perfumery, printmaking, sculpture, topiary |
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| Domain category members | aesthetics, Americana, appraiser, aquatint, art, authenticator, blazon, cartoon, cathartic, celluloid, chalk out, charcoal, charge, cinema, conventionalize, deaccession, depict, depict, distemper, doldrums, draw, emblazon, engrave, ensemble, esthetics, etch, etch, exhibition, expo, exposition, expressive style, fill in, film, fine art, finger-paint, formalised, formalistic, formalized, fresco, ground, idealogue, illuminate, illustrate, interpret, limn, lithograph, longueur, miniate, miniate, model, model, moderne, mold, mould, nonrepresentational, paint, paint, picture, pop, popular, portray, portray, pose, posture, present, releasing, render, repaint, represent, rubricate, sculpt, sculpture, shade, show, silkscreen, sit, sketch, stagnancy, stagnation, stencil, stipple, stipple, style, stylise, stylize, talaria, tension, theoretician, theoriser, theorist, theorizer, tout ensemble, vocabulary, watercolor, watercolour |
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3. | art (cognition) a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation |
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| Samples | The art of conversation. It's quite an art.
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| Synonyms | artistry, prowess |
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| Broader (hypernym) | superior skill |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | airmanship, aviation, enology, eristic, falconry, fortification, homiletics, horology, minstrelsy, musicianship, oenology, puppetry, taxidermy, telescopy, ventriloquism, ventriloquy |
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4. | art (communication) photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication |
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| Samples | The publisher was responsible for all the artwork in the book.
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| Synonyms | artwork, graphics, nontextual matter |
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| Broader (hypernym) | visual communication |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | drawing, illustration |
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| Part meronym | publication |
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