music

• musick, musicke, musique (all obsolete)

From Middle English musik, musike, borrowed from Anglo-Norman musik, musike, Old French musique, and their source Latin mūsica, from Ancient Greek μουσική (mousikḗ)

• enPR: myo͞oʹzĭk
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmjuːzɪk/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmjuzɪk/

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• Rhymes: -uːzɪk

music (usually uncountable, plural musics)

1. A sound, or the study of such sounds, organized in time.

   I keep listening to this music because it's a masterpiece.

   • 2013 November 22, Ian Sample, “Music lessons in early childhood may improve brain's performance”, in The Guardian Weekly‎, volume 189, number 24, page 32:

     Music lessons in early childhood lead to changes in the brain that could improve its performance far into adulthood, researchers say.

2. (figuratively) Any pleasing or interesting sounds.
   • 1856, John Esten Cooke, The Virginia Comedians‎, page 247:

     “Oh! this was very kind,” she said, with that simplicity and tenderness, which at times made her voice pure music, “I could not have expected you so soon.”

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.

• melody
• vibe

music (third-person singular simple present musics, present participle musicking, simple past and past participle musicked)

1. (transitive) To seduce or entice with music.

• Wikipedia article on the definition of music
• MusicNovatory: the science of music encyclopedia
• Category:Music

• music in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• music at OneLook Dictionary Search

• IPA^(key): [ˈmuzik]

music (comparative plus music, superlative le plus music)

1. musical, of, or pertaining to music.

• musical

music (plural musics)

1. Alternative form of musike

• “mūsik(e (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-01.