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Definition of Liberal arts
1. Noun. Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills). "The college of arts and sciences"
Generic synonyms: Bailiwick, Discipline, Field, Field Of Study, Study, Subject, Subject Area, Subject Field
Specialized synonyms: Neoclassicism, Classicalism, Classicism, Romantic Movement, Romanticism, English, History, Art History, Chronology, Beaux Arts, Fine Arts, Performing Arts, Occidentalism, Oriental Studies, Orientalism, Philosophy, Literary Study, Library Science, Linguistics, Philology, Musicology, Sinology, Stemmatics, Stemmatology, Trivium, Quadrivium
Definition of Liberal arts
1. Noun. those areas of learning that require and cultivate general intellectual ability rather than technical skills; the humanities ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) the trivium and the quadrivium ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Liberal Arts
Literary usage of Liberal arts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readings in the History of Education: A Collection of Sources and Readings by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1920)
"He was a devoted student of the Seven liberal arts and of classical and Biblical
... The first of the liberal arts is Grammar, the second Rhetoric, ..."
2. An Encyclopedist of the Dark Ages: Isidore of Seville by Ernest Brehaut (1912)
"In spite of this, however, it seems to have been his opinion that the less use
made of them the better, and that, if ignorance of the liberal arts was a ..."
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