# music
## English

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### Alternative forms

* musick, musicke, musique, musike (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle English musik, musike, borrowed from Anglo-Norman musik, musike, Old French musique, and their source Latin mūsica, from Ancient Greek μουσική (mousikḗ), from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”), an Ancient Greek deity of the arts. By surface analysis, muse +‎ -ic (“pertaining to”). In this sense, displaced native Old English drēam (“music”), whence Modern English dream.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: myo͞oʹzĭk IPA: /ˈmjuːzɪk/
* Audio (Received Pronunciation):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈmjuzɪk/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Hyphenation: mus‧ic
* Rhymes: -uːzɪk

### Noun

music (usually uncountable, plural musics)
* A series of sounds organized in time, usually employing some combination of harmony, melody, rhythm, tempo, etc., often to convey a mood.
    I keep listening to this music because it’s a masterpiece.
** 1697, [William] Congreve, The Mourning Bride, a Tragedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 1:Muſick has Charms to ſooth a ſavage Breaſt, / To ſoften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.
** 2013 November 22, Ian Sample, “Music lessons in early childhood may improve brain's performance”, in The Guardian Weekly‎, volume 189, number 24, page 32:Music lessons in early childhood lead to changes in the brain that could improve its performance far into adulthood, researchers say.
* (figuratively) Any interesting or pleasing sounds.
** 1856, John Esten Cooke, The Virginia Comedians‎, page 247:“Oh! this was very kind,” she said, with that simplicity and tenderness, which at times made her voice pure music, “I could not have expected you so soon.”
** 1978 August 19, Kevin Warren, “A Flawless Production”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 5, page 15:Wilson's definite genius for rapid, witty dialogue which becomes a kind of conversational music at times.
* An art form, created by organizing pitch, rhythm, and sounds made using musical instruments and/or singing.
* A guide to playing or singing a particular tune; sheet music.
* (military, slang) Electronic signal jamming.
* (US, slang, dated) Heated argument.
* (US, slang, dated) Fun; amusement.

#### Synonyms

* melody
* vibe

#### Derived terms

* absolute music
* abstract music
* alternative music
* ambient music
* antimusic
* art music
* background music
* ballet music
* banku music
* beautiful music
* biomusic
* bumper music
* Caribbean dance music
* Celtic music
* chamber music
* champagne music
* chart music
* chin music
* chipmusic
* classical music
* club music
* cocktail music
* concrete music
* country music
* country-western music
* coworker music
* dance music
* danger music
* day the music died
* devil in music
* director of music
* disco music
* doujin music
* electronic body music
* electronic dance music
* electronic music
* elevator music
* ethnic music
* ethnomusic
* eye music
* face the music
* fast food music
* field music
* fill music
* folk music
* found music
* functional music
* furniture music
* gospel music
* hate music
* have Van Gogh's ear for music
* hillbilly music
* house music
* incidental music
* industrial music
* intelligent dance music
* janissary music
* lift music
* light music
* lounge music
* make beautiful music together
* make music
* marching music
* march music
* micromusic
* miskin
* mood music
* mouth music
* musicaholic
* musical
* musicality
* musically
* musicassette
* musicaster
* music box
* music bread
* music cassette
* music center
* music centre
* music chart
* music demy
* musicdisk
* music frog
* music game
* music group
* music hall
* music house
* musician, muso
* musicing
* musicker
* musicless
* musiclike
* musicmaking
* musicmonger
* musicness
* music notation
* music of the spheres
* musicography
* musicologic
* musicologist
* musicology
* musicon
* musicophile
* music paper
* music pen
* music room
* musicscape
* music school
* music shell
* music shop
* music stand
* musicstick
* music-stick
* music theory
* music therapy
* music to someone's ears
* music video
* music video game
* music volute
* musiczine
* musivisual
* New Age music
* nonmusic
* Original Pilipino Music
* outsider music
* piped music
* pop music
* popular music
* production music
* programme music
* program music
* punk music
* race music
* rap music
* rock music
* roots music
* rough music
* salon music
* serial music
* set to music
* sewing-machine music
* sheet music
* snap music
* soul music
* studio music
* techno music
* theory of music
* township music
* trance music
* trap music
* what kind of music do you like
* word music
* world music

#### Descendants

* Jamaican Creole: myuuzik
* Pitcairn-Norfolk: myuusik
* Tok Pisin: musik
* → Dhivehi: މިއުޒިކް (miuzik̊)
* → Japanese: ミュージック (myūjikku)
* → Malay: muzik
* → Swahili: muziki
* → Welsh: miwsig

#### Translations

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### Verb

music (third-person singular simple present musics, present participle musicking, simple past and past participle musicked)
* (transitive) To seduce or entice with music.

### Adjective

music (comparative more music, superlative most music)
* (rare) Musical.
** 1669, T[heophilus] G[ale], The Court of the Gentiles: or A Discourse Touching the Original of Human Literature, Both Philologie and Philosophie, from the Scriptures, and Jewish Church in Order to a Demonstration, […], part I (Of Philologie), Oxon [Oxford]: […] Hen[ry] Hall for Tho[mas] Gilbert, pages 136–137:Again, Moſes was the firſt that brought in ſacred Muſick: thus in like manner Strabo lib. 10. 453. informes us, that the Bacchick Muſick was famous throughout Aſia; and that many muſick Inſtruments had obteined a Barbarick name, as Jambla, Sambuke, Barbitos, Magades, &c. which ſeem all to be of Hebrew origination.
** 1838 fall – 1839 summer, Jones Very, “The Unrevealed”, in Helen R. Deese, editor, Jones Very: The Complete Poems, Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, published 1993, →ISBN, page 159, lines 4–9:Loosened / Thy tongue shall with sweet-flowing sounds surprize / The ear of sense; another than thyself / Will be seen within to have come, and bringing / Music tones from other spheres to have made / Thee ever the harp of hidden minstrelsy.
** 1847, William Ellery Channing, “The Desert”, in Poems, second series, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, page 59:So should she drape the World’s wide round, / With sunny robes, and fresh Spring weather / And consecrate the loneliest ground, / While we went wandering linked together, / Her music voice, her beaming eyes, / Give to the Silence, glad replies.
** 1851 January, Sarah J[osepha] Hale, “The Judge; a Drama of American Life”, in Sarah J[osepha] Hale, editor, Godey’s Lady’s Book, volume XLII, Philadelphia, Pa.: L[ouis] A[ntoine] Godey, act I, scene III, page 26, column 2:And therefore, prisoner, you are doomed for life / To solitary toil. Alone! alone! alone! / Love’s music voice will never greet your ear; / Affection’s eye will never meet your gaze; / Nor heart-warm hand of friend return your grasp; / But morn, and noon, and night, days, months, and years, / Will all be told in this one word—alone!

### See also

* Definition of music on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* MusicNovatory: the science of music encyclopedia
* Category:Music

### References

* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “music”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “music”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* ↑ “music, n. and adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

### Anagrams

* MICUs

## Interlingua
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmuzik]

### Adjective

music (comparative plus music, superlative le plus music)
* musical, of, or pertaining to music.

#### Synonyms

* musical

## Middle English
### Noun

music
* Alternative form of musike