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muse¹

  • /mjuːz/ UK
  • /mjuz/ Canada, US
  • /mjʉːz/ Australia, New Zealand

Sounds like mews, Meuse · Rhymes with -uːz

Where it comes from

From Middle French muse, from Latin Mūsa, from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa).

noun muses

  1. Of a person: a source of inspiration. Yoko Ono was John Lennon's wife, lover, and muse.
  2. archaic A poet; a bard. My toung-tide Muſe in manners holds her ſtill, While comments of your praiſe richly compil'd, Reſerue their Character with goulden quill, And precious phraſe by all the Muſes fil’d.

muse²

  • /mjuːz/ UK
  • /mjuz/ Canada, US
  • /mjʉːz/ Australia, New Zealand

Sounds like mews, Meuse · Rhymes with -uːz

Where it comes from

From Middle English musen, from Old French muser.

verb muses · musing · mused

  1. intransitive To become lost in thought, to ponder.
  2. transitive To say (something) with due consideration or thought. When I asked about her affinity for playing self-obsessed artists, O’Hara mused: “Maybe I’m just trying to get it out of my system. I’m so afraid to be like that.”
  3. transitive To think on; to meditate on. Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise.
  4. transitive To wonder at. Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed; for what I will, I will, and there an end.

noun muses

  1. An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness. still he sate long time astonished / As in great muse, ne word to creature spake.

muse³

  • /mjuːz/ UK
  • /mjuz/ Canada, US
  • /mjʉːz/ Australia, New Zealand

Sounds like mews, Meuse · Rhymes with -uːz

Where it comes from

From French musse. See muset.

noun muses

  1. A gap or hole in a hedge, fence, etc. through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset. Find a hare without a muse. (old proverb)

Muse⁴

  • /mjuːz/

Sounds like mews · Rhymes with -uːz

Where it comes from

From Middle English Muse, from Latin Musa, from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa).

noun Muses · Musae

  1. One of the nine Ancient Greek deities of the arts. And hears the Muſes in a ring, Ay round about Joves Altar ſing.

Muse⁵

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Shan မူႇၸေႊ (mùu tse᷈e).

proper noun

  1. A city in Shan State, Myanmar.

Muse⁶

proper noun

  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Glades County, Florida.
  3. An unincorporated community in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, named after Rev. Joseph Muse.

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