different between art vs drama

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??t/, [???]
• Rhymes: -??(?)t
• Hyphenation: art

Etymology 1

From Middle English art, from Old French art, from Latin artem, accusative of ars (“art”). Displaced native Old English cræft (Modern English craft) and Old English list (Modern English list).

Noun

art (countable and uncountable, plural arts)

1. (uncountable) The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions, usually specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
   • 1992 May 3, "Comrade Bingo" Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 6:

     B.W. Wooster: If you ask me, art is responsible for most of the trouble in the world.
     R. Jeeves: An interesting theory, sir. Would you care to expatiate upon it?
     B.W. Wooster: As a matter of fact, no, Jeeves. The thought just occurred to me, as thoughts do.
     R. Jeeves: Very good, sir.

   • 2005 July, Lynn Freed, Harper's:

     "I tell her what Donald Hall says: that the problem with workshops is that they trivialize art by minimizing the terror."

   • 2009, Alexander Brouwer:

     Visual art is a subjective understanding or perception of the viewer as well as a deliberate/conscious arrangement or creation of elements like colours, forms, movements, sounds, objects or other elements that produce a graphic or plastic whole that expresses thoughts, ideas or visions of the artist.

2. (uncountable) The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc.
3. (countable) Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.

4. (uncountable) The study and the product of these processes.

5. (uncountable) Aesthetic value.

6. (uncountable) Artwork.

7. (countable) A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.

8. (countable) A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.
9. (countable) Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
   • 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, page 217:

     A physician was immediately sent for; but on the first moment of beholding the corpse, he declared that Elvira's recovery was beyond the power of art.
10. (uncountable, dated) Contrivance, scheming, manipulation.

Synonyms

• (Human effort): craft

Antonyms

• (Human effort): mundacity, nature, subsistence

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

• Jamaican Creole: aat
• Tok Pisin: at
• ? Japanese: ??? (?to)

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English art, from Old English eart (“(thou) art”), second-person singular present indicative of wesan, from Proto-Germanic *ar-t (“(thou) art", originally, "(thou) becamest”), second-person singular preterite indicative form of *iran? (“to rise, be quick, become active”), from Proto-Indo-European *er-, *or(w)- (“to lift, rise, set in motion”). Cognate with Faroese ert (“art”), Icelandic ert (“art”), Old English earon (“are”), from the same preterite-present Germanic verb. More at are.

Verb

art

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of be

See also

References

• art at OneLook Dictionary Search
• "art" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 40.
• art in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• art in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Further reading

• art on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Art on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Art on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
• Art on Wikisource.Wikisource
• Art on Wikibooks.Wikibooks
• Art on Wikinews.Wikinews

Anagrams

• 'rat, ATR, RAT, RTA, Rat, TAR, Tar, rat, tar, tra

Albanian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ars, artem.

Noun

art m (definite singular arti)

1. art

Declension

Synonyms

• zeje

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin ars.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?a?t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?art/

Noun

art m or f (plural arts)

1. art (something pleasing to the mind)

Derived terms

• art marcial
• belles arts
• obra d'art

Related terms

• artista
• artístic

Noun

art m (plural arts)

1. fishing net

Derived terms

• artet

Related terms

• bou
• xarxa

Further reading

• “art” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “art” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “art” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “art” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cornish

Etymology

From Latin ars (“art”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??t]

Noun

art m (plural artys)

1. art

Crimean Tatar

Noun

art

1. back

   Synonyms: arqa, s?rt

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German art, from Proto-Germanic *ardiz, cognate with German Art.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???d?]
• Homophone: ard

Noun

art c (singular definite arten, plural indefinite arter)

1. kind
2. nature
3. species

Inflection

French

Etymology

From Latin artem, accusative singular of ars.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?/

Noun

art m (plural arts)

1. art (something pleasing to the mind)

Derived terms

Related terms

• artifice
• artificiel
• artisan
• artiste

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: la (< l'art)

Further reading

• “art” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• rat

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish art, explained in glossaries as “stone”.

Noun

art m (genitive singular airt, nominative plural airt)

1. stone

Declension

Derived terms

• chomh marbh le hart (“stone dead”)

Mutation

Further reading

• "art" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “art”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *ar-, *ar?-, *h?erh?- (“to plow”), from *h?er- (“sparse; to crumble, to fall to pieces”), whence also the verb irt (q.v.). Cognates include Lithuanian árti, Old Prussian artoys (“plowman”) (compare Lithuanian artójas), Old Church Slavonic ????? (orati), Russian dialectal or dated ?????? (orát?), Belarusian ?????? (arác?), Ukrainian ?????? (oráty), Bulgarian ???? (orá), Czech orati, Polish ora?, Gothic ???????????????????? (arjan), Old Norse erja, Hittite [Term?] (/?arra-/, “to crush; (passive form) to disappear”), [Term?] (/?arš-/, “to tear open; to plow”), Ancient Greek ???? (aró?), Latin ar?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [â?t]

Verb

art (tr., 1st conj., pres. aru, ar, ar, past aru)

1. to plow (to prepare (land) for sowing by using a plow)

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

References

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (?ar?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /art/
• IPA^(key): /a?rt/ (variant, as if spelt *g?art)

Noun

art f (plural artijiet)

1. earth (our planet)

   Synonym: dinja

2. ground; soil

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English eart, second person singular of wesan (“to be”), from Proto-Germanic *art,second person singular of *iran?.

Alternative forms

• eart, ert

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /art/

Verb

art

2. second-person singular present indicative of been

Usage notes

This form is more common than bist for the second-person singular.

Descendants

• English: art (archaic, dialectal)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French art, from Latin artem, accusative form of ars, from Proto-Indo-European *h?r?tís.

Alternative forms

• aart, arte

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /art/

Noun

art (plural artes or ars)

2. A member of the seven medieval liberal arts (the trivium and quadrivium).
3. The seven medieval liberal arts as a group; the trivium and quadrivium combined.
4. The foundational knowledge and activities of a field or subject (either academic or trade).
5. Applied or practical knowledge; the execution or realisation of knowledge.
6. Guile, craft or an instance of it; the use of deception or sleight-of hand.
7. Competency, skill; one's aptitude or ability in a given area or at a given task.
8. A set of rules or guidelines for conducting oneself; a code of conduct.
9. (rare) Knowledge, information; the set of things which one has learned about (through formal study).
10. (rare) Rhetoric; skill in oration, argument, speech, or speaking.
11. (rare) Human behaviour or action (as opposed to natural happenings).

Descendants

• English: art
• Scots: airt

References

• “art, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

From Old English eard, from Proto-Germanic *ardiz (“nature; type”). Doublet of erd (“nature, disposition”).

Noun

art

1. (Northern) district, locality.

Descendants

• Scots: airt
• Yola: ete

References

• “art, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Middle French

Noun

art m (plural ars)

1. art

Descendants

• French: art
  • Haitian Creole: la (< l'art)

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

art f or m (definite singular arta or arten, indefinite plural arter, definite plural artene)

1. character, nature, kind
2. (biology) a species

Derived terms

References

• “art” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Anagrams

• rat, tar

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

art m or f (definite singular arten or arta, indefinite plural artar or arter, definite plural artane or artene)

1. (biology) a species
2. character, nature, kind

Derived terms

Related terms

• ard

References

• “art” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• rat, tar

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin ars.

Noun

art m (plural arts)

1. art

Related terms

• artista

Old French

Etymology

From Latin artem, accusative of ars.

Noun

art m or f (oblique plural arz or artz, nominative singular arz or artz, nominative plural art)

1. art (skill; practice; method)
   • (Can we date this quote?) Walter of Bibbesworth: Le Tretiz, ed. W. Rothwell, ANTS Plain Texts Series 6, 1990. Date of cited text: circa 1250

     ore serroit a saver de l’art a bresser & brasyr

     Now would be the time to know the art of brewing

Descendants

• Middle French: art
  • French: art
    • Haitian Creole: la (< l'art)
• Norman: art
• Walloon: årt
• ? Middle English: art
  • English: art
    • Jamaican Creole: aat
    • Tok Pisin: at
    • ? Japanese: ??? (?to)
  • Scots: airt

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (art, supplement)
• art on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
• “art” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *artos (“bear”) (compare Cornish arth, Welsh arth), from Proto-Indo-European *h???t?os (“bear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ar?t/

Noun

art m

1. bear

   Synonym: mathgamain

Inflection

Mutation

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• argt
• ragt (with metathesis)

Adjective

art

1. strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of argr

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish art.

Pronunciation

Noun

art c

1. species

Declension

References

• art in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• tar

Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *h?rt (“back”). Cognate with Turkish arka.

Noun

art (definite accusative art?, plural artlar)

1. back

Declension

English

Etymology

From Late Latin dr?ma, from Ancient Greek ????? (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”), from ???? (drá?, “to act, to take action, to achieve”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d???m?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d??m?/
• (Canada, Scotland) IPA^(key): /?d?æm?/
• Hyphenation: dra?ma
• Rhymes: -??m?

Noun

drama (usually uncountable, plural dramas or dramata)

1. A composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue

2. Such a work for television, radio or the cinema (usually one that is not a comedy)
3. Theatrical plays in general
4. A situation in real life that has the characteristics of such a theatrical play
5. (slang) Rumor, lying or exaggerated reaction to life or online events; melodrama; an angry dispute or scene; a situation made more complicated or worse than it should be; intrigue or spiteful interpersonal maneuvering.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:drama

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Arabic: ????????? (dr?m?)
  • Gulf Arabic: ??????? (dr?ma)
• ? Cebuano: drama
• ? Japanese: ??? (dorama)
• ? Korean: ??? (deurama)
• ? Malay: drama

Translations

Anagrams

• Madar, damar

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?d?a.m?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?d?a.ma/

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ????? (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”), from ???? (drá?, “to act, to take action, to achieve”).

Noun

drama m (plural drames)

1. drama (theatrical and media genre)
2. drama (theatrical plays in general)
3. drama (difficult situation)

Related terms

References

• “drama” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ?????? (drakhm?, “a drachma”).

Noun

drama f (plural drames)

1. Obsolete spelling of dracma

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English drama, from Ancient Greek ????? (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”), from ???? (drá?, “to act, to take action, to achieve”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: dra?ma

Noun

drama

1. a theatrical play; a skit
2. a radio drama
3. a soap opera, a TV show that is not a comedy.
4. an act; a display of behavior meant to deceive
5. (derogatory) a show; mere display or pomp with no substance

Verb

drama

1. to be emotional or sentimental
2. to put on an act

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:drama.

Czech

Etymology

From Latin drama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?drama]
• Hyphenation: dra?ma

Noun

drama n

1. drama (composition intended for actors)

Declension

Related terms

• dramatický m
• dramatik m
• dramatizovat
• dramaturg m
• dramaturgie f

Further reading

• drama in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• drama in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin dr?ma, from Ancient Greek ????? (drâma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dra?.ma?/
• Hyphenation: dra?ma
• Rhymes: -a?ma?

Noun

drama n (plural drama's, diminutive dramaatje n)

1. drama (theatrical work; anything involving play acting).
2. Something tragic, a tragedy.

Derived terms

• docudrama
• dramaserie
• dramaticus
• dramatiek
• dramatisch
• gezinsdrama

Related terms

• dramaturg

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: drama

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tra?ma/
• Rhymes: -a?ma

Noun

drama n (genitive singular drama, no plural)

1. drama

Declension

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch drama, from Late Latin dr?ma, from Ancient Greek ????? (drâma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?drama]
• Hyphenation: dra?ma

Noun

drama (first-person possessive dramaku, second-person possessive dramamu, third-person possessive dramanya)

1. drama:
   1. a composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue.
   2. theatrical plays in general.

      Synonyms: sandiwara, teater, tonil

2. (colloquial) tragedy, a disastrous event, especially one involving great loss of life or injury.

   Synonym: tragedi

Affixed terms

Further reading

• “drama” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d????am??/

Noun

drama m (genitive singular drama, nominative plural dramaí)

1. Cois Fharraige form of dráma

Declension

Mutation

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?dra?.ma/, [?d??ä?mä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?dra.ma/, [?d????m?]

Noun

dr?ma n (genitive dr?matis); third declension

1. drama, play

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Descendants

• ? Belarusian: ?????? (dráma)
• ? Catalan: drama
• ? Czech: drama
• ? Dutch: drama
  • ? Indonesian: drama
• ? English: drama
  • ? Arabic: ????????? (dr?m?)
    • Gulf Arabic: ??????? (dr?ma)
  • ? Cebuano: drama
  • ? Japanese: ??? (dorama)
  • ? Korean: ??? (deurama)
  • ? Malay: drama
• ? Finnish: draama
• ? French: drame
• ? German: Drama
• ? Hungarian: dráma
• ? Icelandic: drama
• ? Irish: dráma
• ? Macedonian: ????? (drama)
• ? Norwegian: drama
• ? Polish: dramat
• ? Portuguese: drama
• ? Romanian: dram?
• ? Russian: ?????? (dráma)
• ? Serbo-Croatian: ?????? / dr?ma
• ? Spanish: drama
• ? Swedish: drama
• ? Ukrainian: ?????? (dráma)
• ? Welsh: drama
• ? Yiddish: ??????? (drame) (through some Romance language)

References

• drama in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• drama in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• drama in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• drama in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• drama in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”).

Noun

drama n (definite singular dramaet, indefinite plural drama or dramaer, definite plural dramaene)

1. a drama

Derived terms

• gisseldrama
• melodrama

Related terms

• dramatikk

References

• “drama” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (drâma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dr??m?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

drama n (definite singular dramaet, indefinite plural drama, definite plural dramaa)

1. (countable or uncountable) a drama

Inflection

Derived terms

• gisseldrama
• melodrama

Related terms

• dramatikk

References

• “drama” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ama

Noun

drama m (plural dramas)

1. drama (composition)
2. drama (theatrical play)
3. drama (dramatic situation)

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

drama m (genitive singular drama, plural dramaichean)

1. Alternative form of dràm

Noun

drama

1. genitive singular of dràm

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drâma/
• Hyphenation: dra?ma

Noun

dr?ma f (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. drama

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin drama, from Ancient Greek ????? (drâma). Cognate with English drama.

Noun

drama m (plural dramas)

1. drama (genre in art, film, theatre and literature or a work of said genre)
2. drama, tragedy, plight (quality of intense or high emotion or situation of enormous gravity that heightens such emotions)

   Synonym: tragedia

3. drama (theatre studies)

   Synonym: teatro

4. play (work of theatre)

   Synonym: obra

5. big deal, fuss, scene

   Synonyms: gran cosa, escándalo, escena

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• eurodrama m
• reina del drama (“drama queen”)

Related terms

• dramatizar

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

drama n

1. a drama

Declension

Related terms

• dramatiker
• dramatisk
• dramaturg
• dramaturgi

Anagrams

• ramad

Veps

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ?????? (dráma).

Noun

drama

1. drama (theatre)

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “?????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Welsh

Etymology

From Late Latin dr?ma, from Ancient Greek ????? (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”), from ???? (drá?, “to act, to take action, to achieve”).

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?drama/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?dra(?)ma/

Noun

drama f (plural dramâu)

1. drama, play

Mutation