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ARTS AND CRAFTS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The arts of decorative design and handicraft
Example:
they sponsored arts and crafts in order to encourage craftsmanship in an age of mass production
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("arts and crafts" is a kind of...):
art; artistic creation; artistic production (the creation of beautiful or significant things)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "arts and crafts"):
handicraft (a craft that requires skillful hands)
