humanities

humanities

humanities pl (plural only)

(obsolete) Synonym of classical studies: the study of Ancient Greek and Latin, their literature, etc.
The study of language, literature, the arts, history, and philosophy, sometimes including religion.
Synonyms: (obsolete) belles-lettres, (mainly India) arts; see also Thesaurus:humanities
- 2021 August 17, Artemis Moshtaghian, “Church made famous by Paul Revere reckons with its ties to slavery”, in CNN‎:
  The Old Church is one of nearly 240 recipients of grants awarded by NEH for humanities projects in support of the preservation of historic collections, humanities documentaries and exhibitions, scholarly books and research, and educational opportunities for teachers, according to the agency’s website.

classical studies — see classical studies

language, literature, etc.

Burmese: ဝိဇ္ဇာပညာ (wijjapa.nya)
Catalan: humanitats (ca) f pl
Chinese:
Mandarin: 人文科學 / 人文科学 (zh) (rénwén kēxué)
Danish: humaniora c
Dutch: geesteswetenschappen (nl) f pl
Esperanto: homa scienco
Estonian: humanitaarained, humaniora
Faroese: hugvísindi n pl
Finnish: humanismi (fi)
French: sciences humaines (fr) f pl
German: Geisteswissenschaften (de) f pl, Humanwissenschaften (de) pl
Greek: ανθρωπιστικές επιστήμες f pl (anthropistikés epistímes), θεωρητικές επιστήμες f pl (theoritikés epistímes)
Hindi: मानविकी f (mānvikī)
Hungarian: humán tárgyak
Icelandic: hugvísindi n pl
Indonesian: humaniora (id)
Italian: scienze umanistiche (it) f pl
Japanese: 人文科学 (ja) (jinbun kagaku), 人文学 (jinbungaku)
Korean: 인문학 (ko) (inmunhak)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: humaniora

Nynorsk: humaniora
Polish: humanistyka (pl) f, nauki humanistyczne (pl) f pl
Portuguese: humanas (pt) f pl
Romanian: umanioare f pl
Russian: гуманита́рные нау́ки f pl (gumanitárnyje naúki)
Slovak: spoločenské vedy f pl
Spanish: humanidades (es) f pl
Swedish: humaniora (sv) c
Tagalog: katuruang-tao
Thai: ศิลปศาสตร์ (th) (sǐn-lá-bpà-sàat)
Turkish: beşerî bilimler
Vietnamese: khoa học nhân văn

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