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music

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 m?sica, from Ancient Greek ??????? (mousik?), from Ancient Greek ????? (Moûsa, Muse), an Ancient Greek deity of the arts. Surface analysis muse +? -ic (pertaining to). Displaced native Old English dr?am, which was a cognate with English dream.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: myo?o?z?k
    • (UK) IPA(key): /?mju?z?k/
    • (US) IPA(key): /?mjuz?k/
  • Rhymes: -u?z?k

Noun

music (usually uncountable, plural musics)

  1. A series of sounds organized in time, employing melody, harmony, tempo etc. usually to convey a mood.
  2. (figuratively) Any pleasing or interesting sounds.
  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

Descendants

  • Jamaican Creole: myuuzik
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: myuusik
  • Tok Pisin: musik
  • ? Dhivehi: ????????? (miuzik?)
  • ? Japanese: ?????? (my?jikku)
  • ? Malay: muzik
  • ? Swahili: muziki

Translations

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

Interlingua

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?muzik]

Adjective

music (comparative plus music, superlative le plus music)

  1. musical, of, or pertaining to music.

Synonyms

  • musical

Middle English

Noun

music

  1. Alternative form of musike

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qawwali

English

Etymology

From Urdu ???????, Persian ???????, from ?????? (qawwal).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /k??w??li/

Noun

qawwali (countable and uncountable, plural qawwalis)

  1. (music, uncountable) A style of Muslim devotional music, especially among the Sufis, accompanied by drums and harmonium.
    • 1994, Simon Broughton, World Music: The Rough Guide:
      Jameela Siddiqi listens to qawwali and talks to its performers […].
  2. (music, countable) A song in this style.
    • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, p. 223:
      They are singing not a religious qawwali but its secular and lay cousin.
    • 2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin 2017, p. 86:
      Every Thursday, in the dargah's enclosure, musicians in shimmering turquoise kurtas, their fingers bejewelled with bling, perform qawwalis attributed to Khusrau […].

Derived terms

  • qawwali-like

qawwali From the web:

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