arts

/ (ɑːts) /


pl n
    • the arts imaginative, creative, and nonscientific branches of knowledge considered collectively, esp as studied academically

    • (as modifier): an arts degree

  1. cunning or crafty actions or plots; schemes

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How to use arts in a sentence

  • The first commencement of Union College for conferring degrees in the arts and sciences.

  • Belle Ringold was very shrewd, young as she was, in the arts of gaining and holding the attention of young men.

  • Among the ancients, the tools which served in the arts were few in number, and these of exceeding simplicity.

    Outlines of the Earth's History | Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
  • He served as physician, as well as priest and school-master, and practised and taught the most useful domestic arts.

  • Like all racial beauties, bred by selection, she needed the arts of dress and furnishings to frame her.

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