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say it: myooz
muse is a noun and verb meaning "in ancient Greek mythology any of 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; protector of an art or science". It carries 3 recorded senses.
in ancient Greek mythology any of 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; protector of an art or science
reflect deeply on a subject
“I mulled over the events of the afternoon”
“philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years”
“The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for muse come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.