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say it: ahrts
arts is a noun meaning "studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)". It carries one recorded sense.
studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
“the college of arts and sciences”
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 arts 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.