Muse

From Middle English Muse, from Latin Musa, from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa).

• enPR: myo͞oz, IPA^(key): /mjuːz/

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• Homophone: mews
• Rhymes: -uːz

Muse (plural Muses or (rare) Musae)

1. One of the nine Ancient Greek deities of the arts.
   • 1645, John Milton, Il Penseroso:

     And hears the Muſes in a ring,
     Ay round about Joves Altar ſing.

• (Greek mythology Muses) Muse; Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, Urania

• musal, Musal

• museum
• music

Borrowed from Shan မူႇၸေႊ (mùu tse᷈e).

Muse

1. A city in Shan State, Myanmar.

• Semu, emus, umes

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Muse f (genitive Muse, plural Musen)

1. A Muse (deity).
2. A source of inspiration.

• “Muse”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Muse” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Muse” in Duden online
• Muse on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

• muse, mwse

From Latin Mūsa, either directly or from Old French muse. Ultimately from Ancient Greek Μοῦσᾰ (Moûsă).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiu̯z(ə)/

Muse (plural Muses)

1. (Greek mythology) A Muse
2. A source of inspiration for artists.
3. (rare) A kind of art.

• musike

• English: Muse, muse
• Scots: Muse, muse

• “Mūse, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 30 October 2018.