muse

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See also: Muse, musé, musė, muše, and Muße

English

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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muse (plural muses)

  1. (of people) A source of inspiration.
    Yoko Ono was John Lennon's wife, lover, and muse.
  2. (archaic) A poet; a bard.
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English musen, from Old French muser.

Verb

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muse (third-person singular simple present muses, present participle musing, simple past and past participle mused)

  1. (intransitive) To become lost in thought, to ponder.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ponder
  2. (transitive) To say (something) with due consideration or thought.
  3. (transitive) To think on; to meditate on.
    • c. 1726, James Thomson, Hymn:
      Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise.
    • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
      It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […];  […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
  4. (transitive) To wonder at.
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Noun

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muse (plural muses)

  1. An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness.

Etymology 3

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From French musse. See muset.

Noun

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muse (plural 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)

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French

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Noun

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muse f (plural muses)

  1. artistic inspiration
  2. muse (specific artistic subject)

Verb

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muse

  1. inflection of muser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Italian

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Noun

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muse f

  1. plural of musa

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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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muse

  1. Alternative form of mous

Etymology 2

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Noun

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muse

  1. Alternative form of Muse

Etymology 3

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Verb

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muse

  1. Alternative form of musen

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From French musée, from Latin mūsēum, from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon).

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  • IPA(key): /mʉ.seː/, [mʉʷ.ˈseː]

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muse n (definite singular museet, indefinite plural muse or museer, definite plural museene or musea)

  1. Alternative form of musé

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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From Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa).

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muse f (definite singular musa, indefinite plural muser, definite plural musene)

  1. a muse

Etymology 2

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muse (present tense musar, past tense musa, past participle musa, passive infinitive musast, present participle musande, imperative muse/mus)

  1. to whisper
    Synonym: kviskre

Etymology 3

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From French musée, from Latin mūsēum, from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon).

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  • IPA(key): /mʉ.seː/, [mʉʷ.ˈseː]

Noun

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muse n (definite singular museet, indefinite plural muse, definite plural musea)

  1. alternative spelling of musé

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Spanish

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Verb

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muse

  1. only used in se muse, third-person singular present indicative of musirse
  2. only used in te ... muse, syntactic variant of músete, second-person singular imperative of musirse