"liberal arts" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} liberal arts pl (plural only)
  1. The academic course of instruction intended to provide general knowledge and usually comprising the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, as opposed to professional or technical subjects. Tags: plural, plural-only Related terms: liberal science Translations (academic course of instruction intended to provide general knowledge): ဝိဇ္ဇာပညာ (wijjapa.nya) (Burmese), 通识教育 (tōngshí jiàoyù) (Chinese Mandarin), 博雅教育 (Chinese Mandarin), vapaat taiteet [plural] (Finnish), arts libéraux [masculine, plural] (French), ჰუმანიტარული მეცნიერებები (humaniṭaruli mecnierebebi) (Georgian), bölcsészet (Hungarian), bölcsészettudomány (Hungarian), általános műveltséget oktató tudományok [plural] (Hungarian), studi humanitas (Indonesian), sastera liberal (Malay), seni liberal [Singapore] (Malay), sztuki wyzwolone [nonvirile] (Polish), arte liberale [feminine, plural] (Romanian), de fria konsterna [plural] (Swedish), malayang sining (Tagalog), ศิลปศาสตร์ (sǐn-lá-bpà-sàat) (Thai), liberal sanatlar (Turkish), özgür sanatlar (Turkish)
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  2. The trivium and the quadrivium. Tags: plural, plural-only Translations (the trivium and the quadrivium): 三艺四术 (Chinese Mandarin), svobodná umění [neuter, plural] (Czech), vapaat taiteet [plural] (Finnish), vapaat taidot [plural] (Finnish), hét szabad művészet/mesterség (Hungarian), sztuki wyzwolone [nonvirile] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-liberal_arts-en-noun-uTdDTZVL Disambiguation of 'the trivium and the quadrivium': 12 88
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.