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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: -art suffix forming nouns - a variant of -ard
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024-ard or -art,- suffix. -ard or -art is attached to some verbs and nouns to form nouns that refer to persons who regularly do an activity, or who are characterized in a certain way, as indicated by the stem: dullard (= one who is dull);
drunkard (= one who is drunk).
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024art1 /ɑrt/USA pronunciation n. - Fine Art the making of things considered beautiful:[uncountable]Art is her field of activity.
- Fine Art the objects produced in this way:[uncountable]a great collection of Japanese art.
- the activity, skill, or subject of study concerned with producing such objects:[uncountable]majored in art in college.
- Fine Art[countable] a field or category of art: Dance is an art.
- any field using the skills or techniques of art:[uncountable]industrial art.
- [uncountable] artwork (def. 2).
- skill in conducting any human activity:[countable* usually singular]the art of conversation.
- arts, [plural]
- a branch of study in a college or university, including history, languages, music, philosophy, or literature, as opposed to scientific subjects.
art2 /ɑrt/USA pronunciation v. Archaic.- second person singular present indicative form of the verb be used with "thou,'' an old form of "You'':Thou art.
-art, - suffix. -art is a variant form of -ard. It is found in such words as: braggart.
art., an abbreviation of:- article.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024-ard, - a suffix forming nouns that denote persons who regularly engage in an activity, or who are characterized in a certain way, as indicated by the stem;
now usually pejorative:coward; drunkard;wizard. Also, -art. - Old French, probably extracted from Frankish compound personal names; compare Old High German Adalhart (French Alard), Bernhart (French Bernard), with 2d element -hart literally, strong, hardy, hard (cognate with Old English -heard in names), often merely as intensifier of quality denoted in 1st element.
- Middle English
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024art1 (ärt),USA pronunciation n. - Fine Artthe quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.
- Fine Artthe class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria;
works of art collectively, as paintings, sculptures, or drawings:a museum of art; an art collection. - Fine Arta field, genre, or category of art:Dance is an art.
- the fine arts collectively, often excluding architecture:art and architecture.
- any field using the skills or techniques of art:advertising art; industrial art.
- (in printed matter) illustrative or decorative material:Is there any art with the copy for this story?
- the principles or methods governing any craft or branch of learning:the art of baking; the art of selling.
- the craft or trade using these principles or methods.
- skill in conducting any human activity:a master at the art of conversation.
- a branch of learning or university study, esp. one of the fine arts or the humanities, as music, philosophy, or literature.
- arts:
- (used with a sing. v.) the humanities:a college of arts and sciences.
- (used with a pl. v.) See liberal arts.
- skilled workmanship, execution, or agency, as distinguished from nature.
- trickery;
cunning:glib and devious art. - studied action;
artificiality in behavior. - an artifice or artful device:the innumerable arts and wiles of politics.
- [Archaic.]science, learning, or scholarship.
- Latin ars (nominative), artem (accusative)
- Old French, accusative of ars
- Middle English 1175–1225
art2 (ärt),USA pronunciation v. [Archaic.]- 2nd pers. sing. pres. indic. of be.
- bef. 950; Middle English; Old English eart, equivalent. to ear- (see are1) + -t ending of 2nd pers. singular
Art (ärt),USA pronunciation n. - a male given name, form of Arthur.
ART, [Ling.]- Linguisticsarticle: often used to represent the class of determiners, including words such as this, that, and some as well as the articles a, an, and the.
-art, - var. of -ard: braggart.
art., pl. arts. for 1.- article;
articles. - artificial.
- Militaryartillery.
- artist.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: -ard, -art suffix forming nouns - indicating a person who does something, esp to excess, or is characterized by a certain quality: braggart, drunkard, dullard
Etymology: via Old French from Germanic -hard (literally: hardy, bold), the final element in many Germanic masculine names, such as Bernhard Bernard, Gerhart Gerard, etc |