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CUBISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("cubism" is a kind of...):
art movement; artistic movement (a group of artists who agree on general principles)
Meronyms (members of "cubism"):
cubist (an artist who adheres to the principles of cubism)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cubism"):
analytical cubism (the early phase of cubism)
synthetic cubism (the late phase of cubism)
Derivation:
cubist (an artist who adheres to the principles of cubism)
cubistic (relating to or characteristic of cubism)
