Answer to "Belles lettres" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word ARTS , but the solution may also be POETRY which is one of the most recent solution (1967 in New York Times).

Belles lettres crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
ARTS	25 %	4
POETRY	25 %	6
LITERATURES	25 %	11
LITERATURE	25 %	10

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Belles lettres

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• belles-lettres
• bellettrist
• letterism
• beaux arts
• belle époque
• bibliotheke
• illiterati
• letterist
• belle epoque
• lettrist
• franglais
• letter-spacing

Crossword Answer definitions

ARTS noun

1. 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.
2. The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc.
3. Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.
4. The study and the product of these processes.
5. Aesthetic value.
6. Artwork.
7. A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
8. A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.
9. Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
10. Contrivance, scheming, manipulation.

ARTS noun

1. The humanities.
2. The liberal arts.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result ARTS

• Bachelor's study
• Crafts companion
• Fine and martial
• Op and pop
• Sciences' partner
• Skills
• Some are liberal
• Some are lively
• Some are performing
• They may be liberal

More clues leading to the result POETRY

• Slammer's forte
• Kay Ryan's forte
• Frost product
• See 16 Across
• Frost lines?
• Pablo Neruda's work
• Burns art
• Frost's forte
• It may be in motion
• Wordsworth words

More clues leading to the result LITERATURES

• Belles-lettres.
• Bodies of writing
• They may be studied along with languages

More clues leading to the result LITERATURE

• Start of a quotation by 17-Across
• It is written
• Novels, essays, etc.
• The classics, e.g.
• English major's concern
• "___ is news that stays news" (Ezra Pound)
• Nobel Prize category
• English major's field
• Field of Mauriac's Nobel Prize.
• Churchill's prize, 1953.