Kilo Lingo

music

/ˈmjuːzɪk/

Line drawing of music
Coloured illustration of music
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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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This word is part of lesson 5.