music

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   musical activity i.e. singing, whistling, playing an instrument and so on

   Music is my central interest.

2. 2
   noun

   punishment for one's actions

   you have to face the music

3. 3
   noun

   pleasing and harmonious sounds

   Did the nurse fall asleep to the music of the wind chimes outside the hospital?

4. 4
   noun

   A series of sounds organized in time, usually employing some combination of harmony, melody, rhythm, tempo, etc., often to convey a mood.

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

5. 5
   noun

   Any interesting or pleasing sounds.

   “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.”

6. 6
   adj

   Musical.

   Again, Moſes was the firſt that brought in ſacred Muſick: thus in like manner Strabo lib. 10. 453. informes us, that the Bacchick Muſick was famous throughout Aſia; and that many muſick Inſtruments had obteined a Barbarick name, as Jambla, Sambuke, Barbitos, Magades, &c. which ſeem all to be of Hebrew origination.

7. 7
   noun

   (music) the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments (or reproductions of such sounds)

8. 8
   noun

   an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner

Etymology

From Middle English musik, musike, borrowed from Anglo-Norman musik, musike, Old French musique, and their source Latin mūsica, from Ancient Greek μουσική (mousikḗ), from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”), an Ancient Greek deity of the arts. By surface analysis, muse + -ic (“pertaining to”). In this sense, displaced native Old English drēam (“music”), whence Modern English dream.