MUSE


Meaning of MUSE in English

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( muses, musing, mused)

1.

If you muse on something, you think about it, usually saying or writing what you are thinking at the same time. ( WRITTEN )

Many of the papers muse on the fate of the President...

‘As a whole,’ she muses, ‘the ‘organized church’ turns me off’...

He once mused that he would have voted Labour in 1964 had he been old enough.

VERB : V on/about/over n , V with quote , V that

• mus‧ing

(musings)

His musings were interrupted by Montagu who came and sat down next to him.

N-COUNT

2.

A muse is a person, usually a woman, who gives someone, usually a man, a desire to create art, poetry, or music, and gives them ideas for it.

Once she was a nude model and muse to French artist Henri Matisse.

N-COUNT

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