liberal arts

Questions about liberal arts

What does liberal arts mean?

liberal arts means "studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)".

What is another word for liberal arts?

Close synonyms include humanistic discipline, humanities, arts. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is liberal arts a common word?

liberal arts is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.