art
藝術
-ard, -art. The termination of many English words; as, coward, reynard, drunkard, mostly from the French, in which language this ending is of German origin, being orig. the same word as English hard. It usually has the sense of one who has to a high or excessive degree the quality expressed by the root; as, braggart, sluggard.
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art
n 1: the products of human creativity; works of art collectively;
"an art exhibition"; "a fine collection of art" [syn: fine
art]
2: the creation of beautiful or significant things; "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" [syn: artistic creation, artistic
production]
3: a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice
and observation; "the art of conversation"; "it's quite an
art" [syn: artistry, prowess]
4: photographs or other visual representations in a printed
publication; "the publisher was responsible for all the
artwork in the book" [syn: artwork, graphics, nontextual
matter]