WORK OF ART

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Meaning:

Art that is a product of one of the fine arts (especially a painting or sculpture of artistic merit)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("work of art" is a kind of...):

art; fine art (the products of human creativity; works of art collectively)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "work of art"):

magnum opus (a great work of art or literature)

art object; objet d'art; piece (a work of art of some artistic value)

pastiche (a work of art that imitates the style of some previous work)

period piece (any work of art whose special value lies in its evocation of a historical period)

warhorse (a work of art (composition or drama) that is part of the standard repertory but has become hackneyed from much repetition)