music
music Lexical Profile
music Game Scores & Validity
• noun
Vocal or instrumental sounds combined through rhythm, melody, and harmony to produce beauty of form and express emotion.
"She listens to classical music while studying to help her concentrate."
The written or printed signs and symbols representing vocal or instrumental sound.
"The pianist forgot to bring his sheet music to the rehearsal, so he played the entire piece from memory."
Any pleasant, rhythmic, or harmonious sound resembling a melody, such as birdsong or running water.
"Campers fell asleep to the soothing music of the wind rustling through the pine trees."
• Rhymes for music
Word Origin & Etymology
From Middle English musike, borrowed from Old French musique, via Latin musica, and ultimately from Ancient Greek mousikē (tekhnē), meaning 'the art of the Muses,' the nine sister goddesses who presided over song, poetry, and the arts.