noun
studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
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the college of arts and sciences
• Syn: ↑humanistic discipline, ↑liberal arts, ↑arts
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• Hyponyms:
↑neoclassicism, ↑classicism, ↑classicalism, ↑Romanticism, ↑Romantic Movement, ↑English, ↑history, ↑art history, ↑chronology, ↑fine arts, ↑beaux arts, ↑performing arts, ↑Occidentalism, ↑Orientalism, ↑Oriental Studies, ↑philosophy, ↑literary study, ↑library science, ↑linguistics, ↑philology, ↑musicology, ↑Sinology, ↑stemmatology, ↑stemmatics, ↑trivium, ↑quadrivium
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n
arts, liberal arts, literature, classics, classical studies, philosophy
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Useful english dictionary. 2012.