music
/ˈmjuːzɪk/
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Translation
Pleasant sounds made by singing or by playing instruments.
Word origin
From Old French musique, from Greek mousike, the art of the Muses.
- Origin
- Greek
- Root
- mousike
Examples
love .
Here "music" means the sounds you are listening to.
.
Here "music" is the thing she makes with an instrument.
loud.
"Music" names the sounds that filled the room.
Music is the sound you make when you sing or play an instrument. It is one word with no plural, so we say "some music", not "a music".
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