| Front | muse |
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| Back | verb noun Collocations from the corpus Other dictionary examples Corpus examples muse1 /mjuːz/ verb Date: 1300-1400 Language: Old French Origin: muser, from muse ‘mouth of an animal’; → MUZZLE1 Verb form 1[transitive] to say something in a way that shows you are thinking about it carefully: ‘Somewhere,’ he mused, ‘I’ve heard your name before.’ 2[intransitive] to think about something for a long time SYN ponder muse on/over/about/upon He mused on how different his life would have been, had he not met Louisa. —musing noun [uncountable and countable]: her gloomy musings —musingly adverb verb noun Word sets 1 Other dictionary examples Corpus examples muse2 noun [countable] Date: 1300-1400 Language: French Origin: Latin Musa, from Greek Mousa 1someone’s muse is the force or person that makes them want to write, paint, or make music, and helps them to have good ideas SYN inspiration: Rossetti’s wife and creative muse 2(also Muse) one of the nine ancient Greek goddesses who each represented a particular art or science: the Muse of History |
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