Muse

/mjuːz/ · noun

Meaning

Of a person: a source of inspiration..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of a person: a source of inspiration.
2. (archaic) A poet; a bard.
3. (intransitive) To become lost in thought, to ponder.
4. (transitive) To say (something) with due consideration or thought.
5. (transitive) To think on; to meditate on.
6. (transitive) To wonder at.
7. An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness.
8. A gap or hole in a hedge, fence, etc. through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.

Example Sentences

Yoko Ono was John Lennon's wife, lover, and muse.

My toung-tide Muſe in manners holds her ſtill, While comments of your praiſe richly compil'd, Reſerue their Character with goulden quill, And precious phraſe by all the Muſes fil’d.

So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favour my destined urn

For quotations using this term, see Citations:muse.

When I asked about her affinity for playing self-obsessed artists, O’Hara mused: “Maybe I’m just trying to get it out of my system. I’m so afraid to be like that.”

Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise.

It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.

Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed; for what I will, I will, and there an end.

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Word Forms

• muses
• musing
• mused

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