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quadrivium
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun quadrivium has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
quadrivium, n. [L.].
The four “liberal arts,” arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy; -- so called by the schoolmen. See Trivium. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
quadrivium, n. hist. a medieval university course of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music.
Etymology
L, = the place where four roads meet (as QUADRI-, via road)
ROGET THESAURUS
quadrivium
Four
N quaternity, four, tetrad, quartet, quaternion, square, quarter, tetract, tetragon, quadrangle, rectangle, tetrahedron, quadrature, quadrifoil, quadriform, quadruplet, quatrefoil, tetrapod, quadrangle, quad, quadrupole, quadrivium, four, quaternary, quaternal, quadratic, quartile, tetract, tetractic, tetractinal, tetrad, tetragonal, square, quadrate.
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