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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Musenoun

    in ancient Greek mythology any of 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; protector of an art or science

  2. museverb

    the source of an artist's inspiration

    "Euterpe was his muse"

  3. chew over, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculateverb

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. Musenoun

    One of the nine Ancient Greek deities of the arts.

  2. Etymology: From muse, from Musa, from Μοῦσα.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Musenoun

    Etymology: from the verb.

    The tidings strange did him abashed make,
    That still he sat long time astonished
    As in great muse, ne word to creature spake. Fa. Queen.

    He was fill’d
    With admiration and deep muse, to hear
    Of things so high and strange. John Milton.

    Begin my muse. Abraham Cowley.

    The muse-inspired train.
    Triumph, and raise their drooping heads again. Edmund Waller.

    Lodona’s fate, in long oblivion cast,
    The muse shall sing. Alexander Pope.

  2. To MUSEverb

    Etymology: muser, Fr. muysen, Dutch; musso, Latin.

    If he spake courteously, he angled the people’s hearts; if he were silent, he mused upon some dangerous plot. Philip Sidney.

    St. Augustine, speaking of devout men, noteth, how they daily frequented the church, how attentive ear they give unto the chapters read, how careful they were to remember the same, and to muse thereupon by themselves. Richard Hooker.

    Cæsar’s father oft,
    When he hath mus’d of taking kingdoms in,
    Bestow’d his lips on that unworthy place,
    As it rain’d kisses. William Shakespeare.

    My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and my heart muse of understanding. Psalm xlix. v. 3.

    Her face upon a sudden glittered, so that I was afraid of her, and mused what it might be. 2 Esdras x. 25.

    All men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ or not. Luke iii. 15.

    On these he mus’d within his thoughtful mind. Dryden.

    We muse so much on the one, that we are apt to overlook and forget the other. Francis Atterbury, Sermons.

    Man superiour walks
    Amid the glad creation, musing praise,
    And looking lively gratitude. James Thomson, Spring.

    Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks?
    And given my treasures and my rights of thee,
    To thick-ey’d musing and curs’d melancholy. William Shakespeare.

    You suddenly arose and walk’d about,
    Musing and sighing with yours arms across. William Shakespeare.

    The sad king
    Feels sudden terror and cold shivering,
    Lists not to eat, still muses, sleeps unsound. Daniel.

    Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed;
    For what I will, I will. William Shakespeare.

    Do not muse at me,
    I have a strange infirmity. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

ChatGPT

  1. muse

    A muse is a person or personified force who is the source of inspiration for a creative artist. In ancient Greek mythology, the Muses are nine goddesses who symbolize the arts and sciences. The term can also be used verb where it means to be absorbed in thought or to consider something thoughtfully.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Musenoun

    a gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset

  2. Musenoun

    one of the nine goddesses who presided over song and the different kinds of poetry, and also the arts and sciences; -- often used in the plural

  3. Musenoun

    a particular power and practice of poetry

  4. Musenoun

    a poet; a bard

  5. Musenoun

    to think closely; to study in silence; to meditate

  6. Musenoun

    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

  7. Musenoun

    to wonder

  8. Museverb

    to think on; to meditate on

  9. Museverb

    to wonder at

  10. Musenoun

    contemplation which abstracts the mind from passing scenes; absorbing thought; hence, absence of mind; a brown study

  11. Musenoun

    wonder, or admiration

  12. Etymology: [From F. musse. See Muset.]

Wikidata

  1. Muse

    Muse are an English rock band from Teignmouth, Devon, which formed in 1994. The band consists of school friends Matthew Bellamy, Christopher Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard. Since the release of their 2006 album Black Holes and Revelations, keyboardist and percussionist Morgan Nicholls has performed live with the band. Muse are known for their energetic and extravagant live performances and their fusion of many music genres, including space rock, progressive rock, alternative rock, heavy metal, classical music and electronica. Muse have released six studio albums: Showbiz, Origin of Symmetry, Absolution, Black Holes and Revelations, The Resistance and The 2nd Law. They have also issued three live albums, Hullabaloo Soundtrack, which is also a compilation of B-sides, Absolution Tour, and HAARP, which documents the band's performances at Wembley Stadium in 2007. Black Holes and Revelations earned the band a Mercury Prize nomination and a third place finish in the NME Albums of the Year list for 2006. Muse have also won a collection of music awards throughout their history, including five MTV Europe Music Awards, six Q Awards, eight NME Awards, two Brit Awards—winning "Best British Live Act" twice, an MTV Video Music Award, four Kerrang! Awards and an American Music Award. They were also nominated for five Grammy Awards, of which they won Best Rock Album, for their fifth studio album The Resistance. Muse have sold over 15 million albums worldwide.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Muse

    mūz, v.i. to study in silence: to be absent-minded: to meditate.—n. deep thought: contemplation: absence of mind: the inspiring power, as of a poet.—adj. Mused, bemused, muzzy, fuddled.—n. Mus′er.—adv. Mus′ingly. [Fr. muser, to loiter (It. musare); acc. to Diez and Skeat, from O. Fr. muse (Fr. museau), the snout of an animal. Others explain Fr. muser as from Low L. mussāre—L. mussāre, to murmur.]

  2. Muse

    mūz, n. one of the nine goddesses of poetry, music, and the other liberal arts—daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne: an inspiring poetic inspiration: (Milt.) an inspired poet.—Names of the Muses:—Calliope, of epic poetry; Clio, of history; Erato, of amatory poetry; Euterpe, of lyric poetry; Melpomene, of tragedy; Polyhymnia, of lyric poetry and eloquence; Terpsichore, of dancing; Thalia, of comedy; Urania, of astronomy. [Fr.,—L. musa—Gr. mousa.]

Editors Contribution

  1. MUSE

    A work of art.

    Inspiration at work.


    Submitted by anonymous on July 17, 2019  

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. MUSE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Muse is ranked #2870 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Muse surname appeared 12,571 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 4 would have the surname Muse.

    58.1% or 7,305 total occurrences were White.
    36.3% or 4,575 total occurrences were Black.
    2.3% or 300 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.9% or 248 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.6% or 85 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.4% or 59 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of MUSE in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of MUSE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of MUSE in a Sentence

  1. Sir Philip Sidney:

    But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step-dame Studys blows...Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite,Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.

  2. Stephen Nachmanovitch:

    The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

  3. Vivienne Westwood:

    He's so passionate about fashion that over the years he's just really taken over all the experimental stuff, he's just taken over and I've had to follow him and he calls me his muse, obviously I'm interfering and doing a few things as well ... And I just thought it's time that the public understood the truth of it. I think he's the greatest designer in the world.

  4. William Shakespeare:

    O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

  5. Barbara Tuchman:

    To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

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