musical
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French, from Medieval Latin mūsicālis, from Latin mūsica (“music”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives); equivalent to music + -al.
Pronunciation
Adjective
musical (comparative more musical, superlative most musical)
- Of, belonging or relating to music, or to its performance or notation.
- musical proportion; musical instruments
- Pleasing to the ear; sounding agreeably; having the qualities of music; melodious; harmonious.
- She had a musical voice.
- Fond of music; discriminating with regard to music; gifted or skilled in music.
- the child is musical; having a musical ear
- Pertaining to a class of games in which players move while music plays, but have to take a fixed position when it stops; by extension, any situation where people repeatedly change positions.
- 1962, Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: A Play, Simon and Schuster →ISBN, page 34
- Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
- 2004, Mike Bright, A Dream Realized: A Collection of Poems by Cowboy Mike Bright, Xulon Press →ISBN, page 341
- Musical seats upon an airplane is not a game I recommend.
- 2006, Evelyn Palfrey, The Price of Passion, Simon and Schuster →ISBN, page 441
- “Sounds like y'all are playing musical houses. How did you convince your mama to move to Austin?”
- 2011, Leonard James Schoppa, The Evolution of Japan's Party System: Politics and Policy in an Era of Institutional Change, University of Toronto Press →ISBN, page 14
- Parties were splitting, forming, merging, and dissolving in such rapid succession that the game of musical chairs seemed to describe what was going on better than any known theory of political science.
- 2014, Tyler McMahon, Kilometer 99: A Novel, St. Martin's Griffin →ISBN, page 138
- Among my small circle of college friends, and even more so among the volunteers here, couples are so often changing places, people playing musical lovers.
- 1962, Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: A Play, Simon and Schuster →ISBN, page 34
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Noun
musical (plural musicals)
- A stage performance, show or film that involves singing, dancing and musical numbers performed by the cast as well as acting.
- (probably archaic or obsolete) A meeting or a party for a musical entertainment; a musicale.
Translations
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Catalan
Pronunciation
Adjective
musical m or f (masculine and feminine plural musicals)
Noun
musical m (plural musicals)
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English musical.
Noun
musical c (singular definite musicalen, plural indefinite musicaler or musicals)
- A musical.
Inflection
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | musical | musicalen | musicaler musicals |
musicalerne |
genitive | musicals | musicalens | musicalers musicals' |
musicalernes |
Alternative forms
Derived terms
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
musical (feminine musicale, masculine plural musicaux, feminine plural musicales)
Related terms
Further reading
- “musical”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Galician
Adjective
musical m or f (plural musicais)
Synonyms
- (musical): músico
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from English musical.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
musical (plural musicalek)
- musical (a show or film which involves singing, dancing and musical numbers)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | musical | musicalek |
accusative | musicalt | musicaleket |
dative | musicalnek | musicaleknek |
instrumental | musicallel | musicalekkel |
causal-final | musicalért | musicalekért |
translative | musicallé | musicalekké |
terminative | musicalig | musicalekig |
essive-formal | musicalként | musicalekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | musicalben | musicalekben |
superessive | musicalen | musicaleken |
adessive | musicalnél | musicaleknél |
illative | musicalbe | musicalekbe |
sublative | musicalre | musicalekre |
allative | musicalhez | musicalekhez |
elative | musicalből | musicalekből |
delative | musicalről | musicalekről |
ablative | musicaltől | musicalektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
musicalé | musicaleké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
musicaléi | musicalekéi |
Possessive forms of musical | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | musicalem | musicaljeim |
2nd person sing. | musicaled | musicaljeid |
3rd person sing. | musicalje | musicaljei |
1st person plural | musicalünk | musicaljeink |
2nd person plural | musicaletek | musicaljeitek |
3rd person plural | musicaljük | musicaljeik |
References
- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Interlingua
Pronunciation
Adjective
musical
- musical (relating to music)
Synonyms
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English musical.
Noun
musical m (uncountable)
Portuguese
Etymology
música (“music”) + -al (“adjective-forming suffix”)
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: mu‧si‧cal
Adjective
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Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:musical.
Synonyms
Noun
musical m (plural musicais)
- musical (stage performance, show or film that focuses on singing and dancing)
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:musical.
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Spanish
Pronunciation
Adjective
musical m or f (masculine and feminine plural musicales)
Noun
musical m (plural musicales)
Related terms
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