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say it: ahrt
art is a noun meaning "the products of human creativity; works of art collectively". It is pronounced /ˈɑɹt/ — ahrt. It carries 4 recorded senses.
the products of human creativity; works of art collectively
“an art exhibition”
“a collection of fine art”
art
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”
a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation
“the art of conversation”
“it's quite an art”
photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication
“the publisher was responsible for all the artwork in the book”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for art come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.