muse

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the source of an artist's inspiration

   Euterpe was my muse.

2. 2
   noun

   Of a person: a source of inspiration.

   Yoko Ono was John Lennon's wife, lover, and muse.

3. 3
   noun

   A poet; a bard.

   My toung-tide Muſe in manners holds her ſtill, While comments of your praiſe richly compil'd, Reſerue their Character with goulden quill, And precious phraſe by all the Muſes fil’d.

4. 4
   verb

   To say (something) with due consideration or thought.

   When I asked about her affinity for playing self-obsessed artists, O’Hara mused: “Maybe I’m just trying to get it out of my system. I’m so afraid to be like that.”

5. 5
   verb

   To think on; to meditate on.

   Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise.

6. 6
   verb

   To wonder at.

   Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed; for what I will, I will, and there an end.

7. 7
   noun

   An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness.

   still he sate long time astonished / As in great muse, ne word to creature spake.

8. 8
   noun

   A gap or hole in a hedge, fence, etc. through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.

   Find a hare without a muse. (old proverb)

Etymology

From Middle English Muse, from Latin Musa, from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa).