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Definition of 'Muse'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.i.) muse
to think or meditate in silence.

2.  muse
Archaic. to gaze meditatively or wonderingly.

3. (v.t.) muse
to say or think meditatively.

4.  Muse
one of the nine Greek goddesses, daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, who presided over the arts: Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, and Urania.

5.  Muse
(sometimes l.c.) the inspiration that motivates a poet, artist, or thinker.

6.  Muse
(l.c.) a poet.

Etymology: (1350–1400; < MF < L < Gk Moûsa)

Definition of 'Muse'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) Muse
in ancient Greek mythology any of 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; protector of an art or science

2. (verb) muse
the source of an artist's inspiration
"Euterpe was his muse"

3. (verb) chew over, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculate
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"

Definition of 'Muse'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Muse
a gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset

2. (noun) Muse
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. (noun) Muse
a particular power and practice of poetry

4. (noun) Muse
a poet; a bard

5. (noun) Muse
to think closely; to study in silence; to meditate

6. (noun) Muse
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. (noun) Muse
to wonder

8. (noun) Muse
contemplation which abstracts the mind from passing scenes; absorbing thought; hence, absence of mind; a brown study

9. (noun) Muse
wonder, or admiration

10. (verb) Muse
to think on; to meditate on

11. (verb) Muse
to wonder at

Translation of 'Muse'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to think about a matter usually without serious concentration.
Afrikaans: mymer	Arabic: يَتأمَّل	Bulgarian: размишлявам
Brazilian: refletir	Czech: dumat	German: die Muse
Danish: fundere	Greek: συλλογίζομαι	Spanish: reflexionar, meditar
Estonian: meelisklema	Farsi: انديشه کردن	Finnish: mietiskellä
French: songer	Hebrew: לְהַרהֵר	Hindi: कलादेवी करना, ध्यान करना
Croatian: razmišljati	Hungarian: elmélkedik	Indonesian: memikirkan
Icelandic: brjóta heilann um e-ð	Italian: riflettere	Japanese: 思にふける
Korean: 명상하다	Lithuanian: svarstyti, mintimis perkr	Latvian: pārdomāt; apcerēt
Malay: melamun	Dutch: mijmeren	Norwegian: fundere, spekulere
Polish: dumać	Persian: انديشه کردن	Pashto: اندیشه کول
Portuguese: reflectir	Romanian: a medita, a cugeta	Russian: размышлять
Slovak: dumať	Slovenian: tuhtati	Serbian: razmišljati
Swedish: fundera, grubbla	Thai: คิดรำพึง	Turkish: düşünceye dalmak
Taiwanese: 沈思	Ukrainian: роздумувати, розмірковува	Urdu: غور و فکر کرنا
Vietnamese: suy tưởng	Chinese: 沉思
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