ARTS AND CRAFTS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)