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{{was wotd|2008|February|27}} See Muse

English

Pronunciation

  • , IPA: /mjuːz/,
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-muse.ogg
  • Homophones: mews


Etymology 1

From from {{term|Musa|Mūsa|lang=la}} < {{term|Μοῦσα|lang=grc|sc=polytonic}}.

Noun

  1. A source of inspiration, especially a woman providing inspiration for a male artist.
  2. A poet.


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Etymology 2

First attested in 1340. From .

Verb

  1. To become lost in thought, to ponder.
  2. * 1847 — w:Emily Brontë|Emily Brontë, s:Wuthering Heights|Wuthering Heights, chapter XXII
  3. *: 'No,' she repeated, and continued sauntering on, pausing at intervals to muse over a bit of moss, or a tuft of blanched grass, or a fungus spreading its bright orange among the heaps of brown foliage;
  4. To say (something) with due consideration or thought.
  5. * 1913 — w:Edith Wharton|Edith Wharton, s:The Custom of the Country|The Custom of the Country, chapter III
  6. *: Mrs. Fairford smiled. "I've sometimes thought," she mused, "that Mr. Popple must be the only gentleman I know; at least he's the only man who has ever told me he was a gentleman--and Mr. Popple never fails to mention it."


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Italian

Noun

muse f plural

  1. plural of musa, Muses


el:muse fr:muse io:muse hu:muse ru:muse fi:muse te:muse vi:muse tr:muse zh:muse

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Muse \Muse\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Mused; p. pr. & vb. n.
Musing.] [F. muser to loiter or trifle, orig., to stand
with open mouth, fr. LL. musus, morsus, muzzle, snout, fr. L.
morsus a biting, bite, fr. mordere to bite. See Morsel, and
cf. Amuse, Muzzle, n.]
1. To think closely; to study in silence; to meditate.
"Thereon mused he." --Chaucer.
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He mused upon some dangerous plot. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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2. To be absent in mind; to be so occupied in study or
contemplation as not to observe passing scenes or things
present; to be in a brown study. --Daniel.
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3. To wonder. [Obs.] --Spenser. --B. Jonson.
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Syn: To consider; meditate; ruminate. See Ponder.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Muse \Muse\, n. [From F. musse. See Muset.]
A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through
which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.
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Find a hare without a muse. --Old Prov.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Muse \Muse\, n. [F. Muse, L. Musa, Gr. ?. Cf. Mosaic, n.,
Music.]
1. (Class. Myth.) One of the nine goddesses, daughters of
Zeus and Mnemosyne, who presided over song and the
different kinds of poetry, and also the arts and sciences;
-- often used in the plural. At one time certain other
goddesses were considered as muses.
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Granville commands; your aid, O Muses, bring:
What Muse for Granville can refuse to sing? --Pope.
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Note: The names of the Muses and the arts they presided over
were: Calliope (Epic poetry), Clio (History), Erato
(Lyric poetry), Euterpe (music), Melpomene (Tragedy),
Polymnia or Polyhymnia (religious music), Terpsichore
(dance), Thalia (comedy), and Urania (astronomy).
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2. A particular power and practice of poetry; the
inspirational genius of a poet. --Shak.
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3. A poet; a bard. [R.] --Milton.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Muse \Muse\, v. t.
1. To think on; to meditate on.
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Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise.
--Thomson.
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2. To wonder at. [Obs.] --Shak.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Muse \Muse\, n.
1. Contemplation which abstracts the mind from passing
scenes; absorbing thought; hence, absence of mind; a brown
study. --Milton.
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2. Wonder, or admiration. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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WordNet muse
n 1: in ancient Greek mythology any of 9 daughters of Zeus and
Mnemosyne; protector of an art or science
2: the source of an artist's inspiration; "Euterpe was his
muse"
v : reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of
the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the
question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist
must stop to observe and start to excogitate" [syn: {chew
over}, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate,
contemplate, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate,
speculate]
Moby Dictionary
Apollo , Apollo Musagetes , Bragi , Calliope , Castilian Spring , Clio ,
Erato , Euterpe , Geist , Helicon , Hippocrene , Melpomene , Orpheus ,
Parnassus , Pierian Spring , Pierides , Polyhymnia , Polymnia ,
Terpsichore , Thalia , afflatus , artistic imagination , conception ,
creative imagination , creative power , creative thought , creativity ,
daemon , daimonion , demon , divine afflatus , esemplastic imagination ,
esemplastic power , fire of genius , genius , inspiration , muse ,
mythicization , mythification , mythopoeia , poesy , poetic genius ,
poetic imagination , sacred Nine , shaping imagination , soul , spirit ,
talent , the Muses , the Nine , tuneful Nine


Moby Dictionary
Calliope , Clio , Erato , Euterpe , Melpomene , Parnassian , Polyhymnia ,
Terpsichore , Thalia , Walter Mitty , absence of mind ,
absentmindedness , absorption , abstractedness , abstraction ,
allude to , artistic imagination , bard , be absent , be abstracted ,
bemusement , blurt , blurt out , brood , brood over , brown study ,
call attention to , castle-building , chaw , chew over , chew the cud ,
cogitate , comment , conception , consider , contemplate ,
creative imagination , creative power , creative thought , daydream ,
daydreamer , daydreaming , debate , deliberate , depth of thought ,
digest , divagate , dream , dreaming , engrossment ,
esemplastic imagination , esemplastic power , evaluate , exclaim ,
excogitate , fantasy , fantasying , fit of abstraction , genius ,
go woolgathering , inspiration , interject , introspect , let drop ,
let fall , make reference to , meditate , mention , moon , mooning ,
moonraking , mull over , musefulness , musing , muted ecstasy ,
mythicization , mythification , mythopoeia , note , observe , opine ,
perpend , pipe dream , pipe-dream , pipe-dreaming , play around with ,
play with , poetic imagination , ponder , preoccupation , refer to ,
reflect , remark , reverie , revolve , roll , ruminate ,
shaping imagination , speak , speculate , stargaze , stargazing , stray ,
study , think about , think over , toy with , trance , turn over ,
wander , weigh , woolgathering


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