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Meaning of "liberal arts" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LIBERAL ARTS

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LIBERAL ARTS

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Liberal arts is a noun.
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WHAT DOES LIBERAL ARTS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Liberal arts education

The liberal arts are those subjects or skills that in classical antiquity were considered essential for a free person to know in order to take an active part in civic life, something that included participating in public debate, defending oneself in court, serving on juries, and most importantly, military service. Grammar, rhetoric, and logic were the core liberal arts, while arithmetic, geometry, the theory of music, and astronomy also played a part in education. In modern times, liberal arts education is a term that can be interpreted in different ways. It can refer to certain areas of literature, languages, art history, music history, philosophy, history, mathematics, psychology, and science. It can also refer to studies on a liberal arts degree program. For example, Harvard University offers a Master of Liberal Arts degree, which covers biological and social sciences as well as the humanities. For both interpretations, the term generally refers to matters not relating to the professional, vocational, or technical curricula.

Definition of liberal arts in the English dictionary

The definition of liberal arts in the dictionary is the fine arts, humanities, sociology, languages, and literature Often shortened to: arts.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LIBERAL ARTS

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liberal democracy
Liberal Democrat
Liberal Democrat Party
Liberal Democrats
liberal elite
Liberal Party
liberal studies
Liberal Unionism
Liberal Unionist
liberal-minded
liberaliser
liberalism
liberalist
liberalistic
liberalities
liberality
liberalization
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WORDS THAT END LIKE LIBERAL ARTS

applied arts
arts
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graphic arts
hearts
household arts
in fits and starts
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mixed martial arts
of many parts
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Synonyms and antonyms of liberal arts in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «liberal arts» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LIBERAL ARTS

Find out the translation of liberal arts to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of liberal arts from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «liberal arts» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

文科
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

artes liberales
570 millions of speakers

English

liberal arts
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

उदार कला
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الفنون الحرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гуманитарный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

artes liberais
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মহানুভব শিল্প
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

arts libéraux
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

seni liberal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

freien Künste
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

リベラルアーツ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

교양
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Seni liberal
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

nghệ thuật tự do
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கலைகள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उदारमतवादी कला
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Liberal sanatlar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

arti liberali
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sztuk wyzwolonych
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гуманітарний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

artele liberale
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

φιλελεύθερες τέχνες
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

liberale kunste
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

humaniora
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

liberal arts
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of liberal arts

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LIBERAL ARTS»

The term «liberal arts» is quite widely used and occupies the 28.923 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about liberal arts

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10 QUOTES WITH «LIBERAL ARTS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word liberal arts.
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Jillian Bach
My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.
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John Battelle
I started my career as a liberal arts major from Berkeley, wrote about enterprise IT for a few years, then followed my passion for the digital narrative into graduate school as well (also at Berkeley, the Oxford of the West or, perhaps, the Harvard - sorry Stanford!). My first project out of grad school was 'Wired' magazine.
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Derek Bok
For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.
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Julie Bowen
My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.
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Mary Chapin Carpenter
I'm a liberal arts junkie.
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Mary Chapin Carpenter
I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.
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Steve Case
I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.
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Chick Corea
I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.
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Joy Covey
Not having finished high school and having been fairly utilitarian in the way I went about college, I didn't have a deep liberal arts background. So we'd go to lunch and people would talk about their favorite seventeenth-century poets, and I'd be thinking, 'Could I even name five poets? From any century?'
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Sloane Crosley
I attended an extremely small liberal arts school. There were approximately 1,600 of us roaming our New England campus on a good day. My high school was bigger. My freshman year hourly calorie intake was bigger.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LIBERAL ARTS»

Discover the use of liberal arts in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to liberal arts and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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LIBERAL ARTS AT THE BRINK
But the demand for career-related education has pressured them to become vocational, distorting their mission and core values. Liberal Art At the Brink is a wake-up call for everyone who values liberal arts education.
Victor E. Ferrall, Jr., 2011
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Martianus Capella and the Seven Liberal Arts: The Marriage ...
In 1993 they decided that their conversations might be of interest to others and so they began to tape-record them. This book is the product of that "thinking out loud" process.
William Harris Stahl, 1992
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Why Choose the Liberal Arts?
Michael Randel, President, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation --
Mark William Roche, 2010
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Christian Liberal Arts: An Education that Goes Beyond
Christian Liberal Arts articulates the practical, pedagogical, and theological reasons why Christian liberal arts colleges are distinctive in the world of American higher education.
V. James Mannoia, 2000
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A Mathematics Sampler: Topics for the Liberal Arts
This work presents mathematics as both science and art, focusing on the historical role of mathematics in our culture.
William P. Berlinghoff, Kerry E. Grant, Dale Skrien, 2001
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Liberal Arts Colleges: Thriving, Surviving, Or Endangered?
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David W. Breneman, 1994
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Distinctively American: The Residential Liberal Arts Colleges
" This important volume explores the triumphs and challenges of one segment of the American higher educational universe.
Steven Koblik, Stephen Richards Graubard
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Law in the Liberal Arts
An ideal approach to legal education, in Austin Sarat's view, would open up law and legal knowledge by making them the proper objects of inquiry in the liberal arts.
Austin Sarat, 2005
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Service-Learning and the Liberal Arts: How and Why It Works
The book evaluates service-learning within the context of a liberal arts education from a variety of disciplines.
Craig A. Rimmerman, 2011
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What's Liberal about the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics ...
A determined rebuttal to conservative critics' and activists' claims about the liberal bias in American higher education makes the case for a liberalism based on the cause of universal human rights, free and uninhibited inquiry, and the ...
Michael Bérubé, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LIBERAL ARTS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term liberal arts is used in the context of the following news items.
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IBM senior vp John Kelly III maps out vision for Union College …
IBM executive and Union College trustee John Kelly III is determined to elevate the liberal arts school's science and engineering programs. «Albany Business Review, Jul 15»
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CAMP CHAMPS: Pike Liberal Arts cheer team named camp …
Both the Pike Liberal Arts School junior varsity and varsity squads were named camp champions during the AISA/UCA camp at Huntingdon ... «Troy Messenger, Jul 15»
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Robots, Jobs, and the Liberal Arts
Anyone worried about the rise of the robots should be doing whatever it takes to extend a liberal arts education to anyone who wants one. «Inside Higher Ed, Jul 15»
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When Belarus closed its last liberal arts school, the university went …
After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, European Humanities University became one of the few private universities in Belarus to offer a ... «PRI, Jul 15»
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The Most Attractive Employers For Liberal Arts Students
To determine which employers are providing liberal arts students the most sought-after opportunities, global research and advisory firm ... «Forbes, Jul 15»
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kris yao | artech completes dharma drum institute of liberal arts
in new taipei, taiwanese architecture practice kris yao | artech has completed the dharma drum institute of liberal arts. located on an expansive ... «Designboom, Jul 15»
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UCO College of Liberal Arts awards scholarships to Edmond students
The University of Central Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts recently awarded scholarships to multiple Edmond residents in recognition of their ... «Edmond Sun, Jul 15»
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Bangert: Are liberal arts 2nd class at Purdue?
The new College of Liberal Arts dean said it's time to quit being defensive about who they are, what they do and why they're at Purdue. «Journal and Courier, Jul 15»
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Want to keep ex-cons from returning to prison? Give them a liberal
“That's what a liberal arts education can really do for a person such as myself, or anybody who is trying to find their own way in life.” Education ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
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Molding a Liberal Arts Mind for Manufacturing
In our world, hiring managers often dismiss the liberal arts degree candidate because they immediately assume poor math skills. In your search ... «Quality Magazine, Jul 15»

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