liberal arts

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The academic course of instruction intended to provide general knowledge and usually comprising the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, as opposed to professional or technical subjects.
The trivium and the quadrivium.

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liberal arts

Calque of Latin artēs līberālēs.

artes mechanicae artes serviles mechanical arts servile arts

liberal science

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