music
Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈmjuːzɪk/]
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1. music (noun) — sense 1
Definition: A series of sounds organized in time, usually employing some combination of harmony, melody, rhythm, tempo, timbre, sound design, lyrics, etc., often to convey a mood.
Example: I keep listening to this music because it’s a masterpiece.
2. music (noun) — sense 2
Definition: Any interesting or pleasing sounds.
Example: “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.”
3. music (noun) — sense 3
Definition: An art form, created by organizing pitch, rhythm, and sounds made using musical instruments and/or singing.
4. music (verb) — sense 4
Definition: To seduce or entice with music.
5. music (adj) — sense 5
Definition: Musical.
Example: 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.
Structure of the word
Roots:- men (think, Proto-Indo-European)
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