liberal arts

English

Noun

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.
2. The trivium and the quadrivium.

Related terms

• liberal science

Translations

academic course of instruction intended to provide general knowledge

• Burmese: ဝိဇ္ဇာပညာ (wijjapa.nya)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 通识教育 (zh) (tōngshí jiàoyù), 博雅教育

• Finnish: vapaat taiteet pl
• French: arts libéraux m pl
• Georgian: ჰუმანიტარული მეცნიერებები (humaniṭaruli mecnierebebi)
• Hungarian: bölcsészet (hu), bölcsészettudomány (hu), általános műveltséget oktató tudományok pl
• Indonesian: studi humanitas
• Malay: sastera liberal, seni liberal (Singapore)
• Polish: sztuki wyzwolone nvir
• Romanian: arte liberale f pl
• Swedish: de fria konsterna c pl
• Tagalog: malayang sining
• Thai: ศิลปศาสตร์ (th) (sǐn-lá-bpà-sàat)
• Turkish: liberal sanatlar, özgür sanatlar

the trivium and the quadrivium

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三艺四术

• Czech: svobodná umění n pl
• Finnish: vapaat taiteet pl, vapaat taidot pl
• Hungarian: hét szabad művészet/mesterség
• Polish: sztuki wyzwolone nvir