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[ noun ] studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)

Examples

"the college of arts and sciences"

Used in print

(Edward Austin Walton, "On Education for the Interior...)

`` Designs , plans and furnishes interiors of houses , commercial and institutional structures , hotels , clubs , ships , theaters , as_well_as set_decorations for motion_picture arts and television .

(Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)

`` To have become so corrupt '' , he says , `` surely you must have studied many arts and sciences '' .

(Leo Lemon, "Catch Up With" and "Something to...)

For the last two years , this frontier of the arts has produced a number of so-called `` non dramas '' which have left indelible , bittersweet impressions on the psyche of_this veteran theatregoer .

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 32459
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