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Music

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English

Pronunciation

  • myo͞o'zĭk, /ˈmjuːzɪk/, /"mju:zIk/

Etymology

From Latin (ars) musica, "(art) of the Muses".

Noun

music (mass noun)

  1. sound organized in time in a melodious way coming from an instrument (or appearing to), as opposed to song.
  2. a song accompanied by instruments, or appearing to.
  3. any pleasing or interesting sounds
  4. a guide to playing or singing a particular tune as opposed to just the lyrics-sheet music
  5. (with capital M) the subject devoting to song and playing instruments
  6. Something wonderful.

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Derived terms

Translations

  • Afrikaans: musiek
  • Alabama: olaachi
  • Albanian: muzikë {f}
  • Amharic: ሙዚቃ
  • Arabic: موسيقى (musiqa)
  • Armenian: երաժշտություն
  • Azeri: not, musiqi
  • Basque: musika
  • Belarusian: muzyka
  • Bengali: bAjnA (বাজনা )
  • Breton: sonerezh m, muzik m -où pl
  • Bulgarian: музика f (1)
  • Catalan: música f
  • Chamorro: música, dandan
  • Chinese character: // (*ngak)
  • Chinese: 音樂 /音乐 (yinyue), 樂曲 /乐曲 (yuequ)
  • Croatian: arija , glazba , glazbena , glazbene , glazbeni , glazbom , muzika , muziku , note, orkestar
  • Czech: hudba
    muziek f (1,2), bladmuziek f (3)
  • Esperanto: muziko
  • Dutch: muziek
    musiikki (1,2,3)
    musique f
  • German: Musik f (1,2,3,5,6), Noten (pl) f (4)
  • Greek: mouzike
  • Haitian Creole: mizik
  • Hawaiian: Mele , pila hoʻokani
  • Hebrew: מוסיקה f
  • Hiligaynon: lanton
  • Hindi: संगीत विद्या, संगीत , राग, लय, ताल, सुर, सुस्वर, तालैक्य
  • Hungarian: zene , énekóra , kotta
  • i-Kiribati: te katangitang
    musica
    ceol m1
    musica f
    音楽 (おんがく, ongaku)
  • Korean: 음악 [音樂] (eumak)
    musica f
  • Malagasy: mozika
    Musikk
  • Farsi: moosiqi , hang
  • Frisian: muzyk
    muzyka f
    música f
    muzică f
    музыка f
    música f
  • Scottish Gaelic: ceòl nm. g.v. ciùil
  • Slovak: hudba
  • Swedish: musik
  • Turkish: müzik
  • Ukrainian: музика

Further reading

  • Wikipedia article on the definition of music

Interlingua

Pronunciation

IPA: [ˈmuzik]

Adjective

music

  1. musical, of, or pertaining to music.

Synonym

  1. musical



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