music

music

See also: Music, Musić, músic, müziç, and mùșic

English

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Alternative forms

• musick, musicke, musique (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. Surface analysis muse +‎ -ic (“pertaining to”). In this sense, displaced native Old English drēam (“music”), whence Modern English dream.

Pronunciation

• enPR: myo͞oʹzĭk
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmjuːzɪk/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmjuzɪk/

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• Rhymes: -uːzɪk

Noun

music (usually uncountable, plural musics)

1. A series of sounds organized in time, usually employing some combination of melody, harmony, tempo, rhythm etc. usually 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 228728136, 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.

2. (figuratively) Any pleasing or interesting 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.”

3. An art form, created by organizing of pitch, rhythm, and sounds made using musical instruments and sometimes singing.
4. A guide to playing or singing a particular tune; sheet music.
5. (military, slang) Electronic signal jamming.
6. (US, slang, dated) Heated argument.
7. (US, slang, dated) Fun; amusement.

Synonyms

• melody
• vibe

Derived terms

• background music
• bumper music
• chamber music
• chin music
• classical music
• concrete music
• country music
• elevator music
• face the music
• fill music
• folk music
• hillbilly music
• incidental music
• musical
• musicality
• musically
• musicaster
• music box
• music hall
• musician, muso
• musicing
• musicless
• music of the spheres
• musicologist
• musicology
• music to someone's ears
• pop music
• program music
• rap music
• rock music
• rough music
• set to music
• sheet music
• soul 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

sound, organized in time in a melodious way

Abkhaz: амузика (amuzikʼa) Acehnese: musik Afrikaans: musiek (af), mëzikë f Albanian: muzikë (sq) f Amharic: ሙዚቃ ? (muziḳa) Arabic: مُوسِيقَى‎ (ar) f (mūsīqā), مُوسِيقَا‎ (ar) f (mūsīqā), طَرَب‎ (ar) m (ṭarab) Egyptian Arabic: مزّيكا‎ f (mazzīka) Hijazi Arabic: موسيقى‎ f (mūsīga, mūsīqa) Aragonese: mosica (an) f Aramaic: Classical Syriac: ܙܡܪܐ‎ (zmārā) Armenian: երաժշտություն (hy) (eražštutʿyun) Aromanian: muzicã f Assamese: সংগীত (xoṅgit) Asturian: música (ast) f Azerbaijani: musiqi (az) Balinese: ᬫᬸᬲᬶᬓ᭄ (musik) Bashkir: музыка (muzıka) Basque: musika Bavarian: Musi ? Belarusian: му́зыка f (múzyka) Bengali: সঙ্গীত (bn) (sôṅgīt), গান (bn) (gan) Breton: sonerezh m Bulgarian: му́зика (bg) f (múzika) Burmese: ဂီတ (my) (gita.) Buryat: хүгжэм (xügžem) Catalan: música (ca) f Old Catalan: musica f Chechen: музыка (muzyka), эшар (ešar) Cherokee: ᏗᎧᏃᎩᏛ (dikanogidv) Chinese: Cantonese: 音樂, 音乐 (jam1 ngok6) Dungan: йинйүә (yinyüə) Hakka: 音樂, 音乐 (yîm-ngo̍k) Mandarin: 音樂／音乐 (zh) (yīnyuè) Min Dong: 音樂, 音乐 (ĭng-ngŏk) Min Nan: 音樂 (zh-min-nan), 音乐 (im-ga̍k) Wu: 音樂, 音乐 (in hhiaq) Chuvash: кӗвӗ (kĕvĕ), мусӑк (mus̬ăk) Coptic: ⲟⲩⲗⲗⲉ ? (oulle) Cornish: musik f, ilow f Corsican: musica (co) f Czech: hudba (cs) f, muzika (cs) f Danish: musik (da) c Dhivehi: މިއުޒިކް‎ (miuzik̊) Dutch: muziek (nl) f Elfdalian: musik m Erzya: музыка (muzyka) Esperanto: muziko (eo) Estonian: muusika (et) Farefare: yʋʋmʋm Faroese: tónleikur m Finnish: musiikki (fi) French: musique (fr) f Old French: musique f, musike f Middle French: musique f Friulian: musiche f Galician: música (gl) f Georgian: მუსიკა (ka) (musiḳa) German: (sound, composition) Musikstück (de), Musik (de); (art) Musik (de) f, Tonkunst (de) f Greek: μουσική (el) f (mousikí) Ancient Greek: μουσική f (mousikḗ) Greenlandic: nipilersorneq Gujarati: સંગીત n (saṅgīt) Haitian Creole: mizik Hawaiian: mele (vocal), pila hoʻokani (instrumental) Hebrew: מוּזִיקָה‎ (he) f (múzika) Hiligaynon: musika Hindi: संगीत (hi) m (saṅgīt) Hungarian: zene (hu), muzsika (hu) Icelandic: tónlist (is) f, hljómlist (is) f Ido: muziko (io) Indonesian: musik (id) Irish: ceol (ga) m Old Irish: ceól n Italian: musica (it) f Japanese: 音楽 (ja) (おんがく, ongaku), ミュージック (myūjikku) Javanese: musik Kalmyk: көгҗм (kögjm) Kannada: ಸಂಗೀತ (kn) (saṅgīta) Kashmiri: موسیٖقی‎ ? (mōsīqī) Kashubian: mùzyka f Kazakh: музыка (kk) (muzyka), саз (saz) Khmer: ភ្លេង (km) (phleing), តន្ត្រី (dɑntrəy) Korean: 음악(音樂) (ko) (eumak) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: موسیقی‎ (ku) (musîqî), موسیقا‎ (musîqa), مووزیک‎ (mûzîk) Northern Kurdish: muzîk (ku) Kyrgyz: музыка (ky) (muzıka) Ladin: please add this translation if you can Ladino: muzika f, מוזיקה‎ f Lao: ດົນຕີ (lo) (don tī), ເພງ (phēng) Latin: (art) mūsica f, mūsicē f Latvian: mūzika f Ligurian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: muzika (lt) f Lombard: please add this translation if you can Low German: Dutch Low Saxon: meziek ? German Low German: Musik ? Luxembourgish: Musek (lb) f Macedonian: музика f (muzika) Maguindanao: gunigunien Malay: muzik (ms), gita (archaic, now obsolete), bunyi-bunyian Malayalam: സംഗീതം (ml) (saṅgītaṃ) Maltese: mużika f Manchu: ᡴᡠᠮᡠᠨ (kumun) Manx: bingys m, kiaull m Maranao: bonibonian Marathi: संगीत n (saṅgīt) Middle English: musike, drem, song Minangkabau: musik Mongolian: хөгжим (mn) (xögžim) Mòcheno: musik f Nepali: संगीत (saṅgīt) Norman: musique f (continental Normandy), mûsique f (Jersey) Northern Sami: musihkka Norwegian: musikk (no) m Occitan: musica (oc) f Okinawan: 音楽 (うんがく, ungaku) Old English: drēam m Old Occitan: muzica f Old Polish: gędźba f Old Portuguese: musica f Oriya: ସଂଗୀତ (or) (sôṃgitô) Ossetian: музыкӕ (muzykæ) Ottoman Turkish: موسیقی‎ (musiki) Pashto: موسيقي‎ f (musiqi) Persian: موسیقی‎ (fa) (musiqi), موزیک‎ (fa) (muzik) Picard: musique f Piedmontese: mùsica f Polish: muzyka (pl) f Portuguese: música (pt) f Punjabi: ਸੰਗੀਤ (pa) m (saṅgīt) Rohingya: gan, tal Romagnol: mùșica f Romanian: muzică (ro) f Romansch: musica f Russian: му́зыка (ru) f (múzyka) Rusyn: музика f (muzyka) Sardinian: musica f Sanskrit: सङ्गीत (sa) n (saṅgīta) Scots: muisic Scottish Gaelic: ceòl m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: му̀зика f, гла̀зба f Roman: mùzika (sh) f, glàzba (sh) f Sicilian: mùsica (scn) f Sindhi: ميوزڪ‎ ? Sinhalese: සංගීතය ? (saṁgītaya) Slovak: hudba (sk) f, muzika f Slovene: glasba (sl) f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: muzika f Upper Sorbian: hudźba f Spanish: música (es) f Old Spanish: musica Sranan Tongo: poku Swahili: muziki (sw) class 3 Swedish: musik (sv) c Sylheti: please add this translation if you can Tagalog: musika (tl), palalinigan Tajik: мусиқӣ (tg) (musiqī) Tamil: சங்கீதம் (ta) (caṅkītam), இசை (ta) (icai) Tatar: музыка (muzıqa) Tausug: please add this translation if you can Telugu: సంగీతం (te) (saṅgītaṁ) Thai: ดนตรี (th) (don-dtrii), เพลง (th) (pleeng) Tibetan: རོལ་གཞས (rol gzhas), རོལ་དབྱངས (rol dbyangs), རོལ་མོ (rol mo) Tigrinya: ሙዚቃ (muziḳa) Tofa: һобус Turkish: müzik (tr), ezgi (tr), musiki (tr) Turkmen: saz Tuvan: хөгжүм (xögjüm), музыка (muzıka), аялга (ayalga) Ukrainian: му́зика (uk) f (múzyka) Urdu: سنگیت‎ m (sangīt), موسیقی‎ f Uyghur: مۇزىكا‎ (muzika) Uzbek: musiqa (uz), muzika (uz) Venetian: mùxega f Vietnamese: âm nhạc (vi) (音樂) Volapük: musig (vo) Walloon: muzike (wa) f Welsh: cerddoriaeth (cy) f, miwsig (cy) m West Frisian: muzyk (fy) ? Western Panjabi: موسیقی‎ ? Yakut: музыка (muzıka), муусука (muusuka) Yiddish: מוזיק‎ f (muzik) Yoruba: orin Zhuang: yinhyoz

any pleasing or interesting sounds

Armenian: երաժշտություն (hy) (eražštutʿyun) Bengali: (please verify) গান (bn) (gan), সুর (sur) Catalan: música (ca) f Czech: hudba (cs) f Danish: musik (da) c Dutch: muziek (nl) f Estonian: muusika (et) Finnish: musiikki (fi) German: Musik (de) f Greek: μουσική (el) f (mousikí) Hungarian: zene (hu), muzsika (hu) Irish: ceol (ga) m Japanese: 音楽 (ja) Macedonian: му́зика f (múzika) Norwegian: musikk (no) m Portuguese: música (pt) f Romanian: muzică (ro) f, melodie (ro) f Russian: му́зыка (ru) f (múzyka) Scottish Gaelic: ceòl m Slovene: glasba (sl) f Spanish: música (es) f Swahili: muziki (sw) class 3 Swedish: musik (sv) c Telugu: మృదుధ్వని (mr̥dudhvani) West Frisian: muzyk (fy) ?

sheet music

Bulgarian: ноти (bg) f pl (noti) Chinese: Mandarin: 樂譜／乐谱 (zh) (yuèpǔ) Czech: notace f, partitura f Danish: noder pl Dutch: bladmuziek (nl) f, partituur (nl) f Estonian: noodipaber Finnish: nuotit (fi) pl French: partition (fr) f German: Noten (de) f pl Greek: παρτιτούρα (el) f (partitoúra), νότες (el) f pl (nótes) Hungarian: kotta (hu) Italian: spartito (it) m, partitura (it) f Japanese: 楽譜 (ja) (gakufu), 音楽 (ja) Korean: 악보 (ko) (akbo) Macedonian: ноти f pl (noti), партиту́ра f (partitúra) Norwegian: noter pl Portuguese: partitura (pt) f Romanian: partitură (ro) f Russian: но́ты (ru) f pl (nóty) Scottish Gaelic: ceòl m Slovak: noty f pl, hudobnina f Spanish: música (es) f

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Alabama: (please verify) olaachi Azerbaijani: (please verify) not (az), (please verify) musiqi (az) Bengali: (please verify) বাজনা (bn) (bajôna) Breton: (please verify) sonerezh m, (please verify) muzik m Chamorro: (please verify) música, (please verify) dandan Dutch Low Saxon: (please verify) meziek ? Gilbertese: (please verify) te katangitang Haitian Creole: (please verify) mizik Hiligaynon: (please verify) lanton Hindi: (please verify) संगीत विद्या m (saṅgīt vidyā), (please verify) संगीत (hi) m (saṅgīt), (please verify) राग (hi) m (rāg), (please verify) लय (hi) f (lay), (please verify) ताल (hi) m (tāl), (please verify) सुर (hi) m (sur), (please verify) सुस्वर (hi) ? (susvar), (please verify) तालैक्य ? (tālaikya) Icelandic: (please verify) tónlist (is) Interlingua: (please verify) musica Korean: (please verify) 음악(音樂) (ko) (eumak) Latin: (please verify) mūsica f Latvian: (please verify) mūzika f Macedonian: (please verify) музика f (muzika) Malagasy: (please verify) mozika (mg) Malay: (please verify) dendang Malayalam: (please verify) സംഗീതം (ml) (saṅgītaṃ) Maltese: (please verify) mużika f Marathi: (please verify) संगीत ? (saṅgīt) Norwegian: (please verify) musikk (no) m Old English: (please verify) drēam m Persian: (please verify) آهنگ‎ (fa) (âhang), (please verify) خنیا‎ (fa) (xoniyâ) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: (please verify) гла̀зба f, (please verify) му̀зика f Roman: (please verify) glàzba (sh) f, (please verify) mùzika (sh) f Telugu: (please verify) సంగీతం (te) (saṅgītaṁ) Thai: (please verify) ดนตรี (th) (dondtree) Turkish: (please verify) müzik (tr) Yiddish: (please verify) מוזיק‎ f (muzik)

Verb

music (third-person singular simple present musics, present participle musicking, simple past and past participle musicked)

1. (transitive) To seduce or entice with music.

See also

• Wikipedia article on the definition of music
• MusicNovatory: the science of music encyclopedia
• Category:Music

References

• music in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• music at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• MICUs

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Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmuzik]

Adjective

music (comparative plus music, superlative le plus music)

1. musical, of, or pertaining to music.

Synonyms

• musical

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Middle English

Noun

music

1. Alternative form of musike