"fine arts" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: fine art [singular]
Head templates: {{en-noun|p|sg=fine art}} fine arts pl (normally plural, singular fine art)
  1. The purely aesthetic arts, such as music, painting, and poetry, as opposed to industrial or functional arts such as architecture or carpentry. Tags: plural, plural-normally Categories (topical): Art Derived forms: fine artist Translations (purely aesthetic arts): فُنُون جَمِيلَة (funūn jamīla) [plural] (Arabic), belles artes [feminine, plural] (Asturian), အနုပညာ (a.nu.pa.nya) (Burmese), belles arts [feminine, plural] (Catalan), 美術 (Chinese Mandarin), 美术 (měishù) (Chinese Mandarin), schone kunsten [plural] (Dutch), belartoj (Esperanto), kaunid kunstid [plural] (Estonian), kaunotaide (Finnish), taide (Finnish), beaux-arts [masculine, plural] (French), belas artes [feminine, plural] (Galician), სახვითი ხელოვნება (saxviti xelovneba) (Georgian), ნატიფი ხელოვნება (naṭipi xelovneba) (Georgian), bildende Künste [feminine, plural] (German), schöne Künste [feminine, plural] (German), καλές τέχνες (kalés téchnes) [feminine, plural] (Greek), ललित कला (lalit kalā) [feminine] (Hindi), ललित कलाएँ (lalit kalāẽ) [feminine, plural] (Hindi), képzőművészet (Hungarian), szépművészetek [plural] (Hungarian), na healaíona uaisle [feminine, plural] (Irish), belle arti [feminine, plural] (Italian), 美術 (bijutsu) (Japanese), ファインアート (fain āto) (Japanese), ಶಿಲ್ಪ (śilpa) (Kannada), 미술 (misul) (Korean), яруу урлаг (jaruu urlag) (Mongolian), هنرهای زیبا (honar-hâ-ye zibâ) [plural] (Persian), sztuki piękne [nonvirile] (Polish), plastyka [feminine] (Polish), belas artes [feminine, plural] (Portuguese), arte frumoase (Romanian), изобрази́тельное иску́сство (izobrazítelʹnoje iskússtvo) [neuter] (Russian), изя́щные иску́сства (izjáščnyje iskússtva) [neuter, plural] (Russian), likovne umjetnosti [feminine, plural] (Serbo-Croatian), bellas artes [feminine, plural] (Spanish), sköna konster [plural] (Swedish), belyas-artes (Tagalog), วิจิตรศิลป์ (wí-jìt-dtrà-sǐn) (Thai), güzel sanatlar [plural] (Turkish), mỹ thuật (Vietnamese), jönavalekans (Volapük)

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      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "honar-hâ-ye zibâ",
      "sense": "purely aesthetic arts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "هنرهای زیبا"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "purely aesthetic arts",
      "tags": [
        "nonvirile"
      ],
      "word": "sztuki piękne"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "purely aesthetic arts",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "plastyka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "purely aesthetic arts",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "belas artes"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "purely aesthetic arts",
      "word": "arte frumoase"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "izobrazítelʹnoje iskússtvo",
      "sense": "purely aesthetic arts",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "изобрази́тельное иску́сство"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "izjáščnyje iskússtva",
      "sense": "purely aesthetic arts",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "изя́щные иску́сства"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "purely aesthetic arts",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "likovne umjetnosti"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "purely aesthetic arts",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "bellas artes"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "purely aesthetic arts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "sköna konster"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "purely aesthetic arts",
      "word": "belyas-artes"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "wí-jìt-dtrà-sǐn",
      "sense": "purely aesthetic arts",
      "word": "วิจิตรศิลป์"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "purely aesthetic arts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "güzel sanatlar"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "purely aesthetic arts",
      "word": "mỹ thuật"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "purely aesthetic arts",
      "word": "jönavalekans"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fine arts"
}

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