noun

1. human ability to make things; creativity of man as distinguished from the world of nature
2. skill; craftsmanship
3. any specific skill or its application the art of making friends
4. any craft, trade, or profession, or its principles the cobbler's art, the physician's art
5. creative work or its principles; a making or doing of things that display form, beauty, and unusual perception: art includes painting, sculpture, architecture, music, literature, drama, the dance, etc.
6. any branch of creative work, esp. painting, drawing, or work in any other graphic or plastic medium
7. products of creative work; paintings, statues, etc.
8. pictorial and decorative material accompanying the text in a newspaper, magazine, or advertising layout
9. 1. Archaic learning
   2. a branch of learning
   3. the liberal arts (literature, music, philosophy, etc.) as distinguished from the sciences
10. artful behavior; cunning
11. sly or cunning trick; wile: usually used in pl.

Etymology: ME < OFr arte < L ars (gen. artis), art < IE base *ar-, to join, fit together > arm, arm, articulate, ratio, L artus, joint

adjective

intransitive verb

1. article
2. artificial