music

music

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈmjuːzɪk/]

Senses

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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