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Meaning of vanitas | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

/ˈvæn.ɪˌtɑs/

Definitions

A type of still life painting, symbolic of mortality, characteristic of Dutch painting of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Equivalents

日本語ヴァニタス

Examples

“In her straight-ahead photographs of storefronts, an arrangement of shoes or shrink-wrapped furniture becomes a vanitas still life.”

CEFR level

B1

Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

See also

Vanities vanitiolide vanitory Vanity vanity box vanity card