English

Pronunciation

• myo͞o'zĭk, /ˈmjuːzɪk/, /"mju:zIk/

Etymology

From Latin (ars) musica, "(art) of the Muses".

Noun

music (mass noun)

1. sound organized in time in a melodious way coming from an instrument (or appearing to), as opposed to song.
2. a song accompanied by instruments, or appearing to.
3. any pleasing or interesting sounds
4. a guide to playing or singing a particular tune as opposed to just the lyrics-sheet music
5. (with capital M) the subject devoting to song and playing instruments
6. Something wonderful.

Synonyms

• melody

Derived terms

• musical
• musicality
• musically
• musician, muso
• musicologist
• musicology

Translations

• Afrikaans: musiek
• Alabama: olaachi
• Albanian: muzikë {f}
• Amharic: ሙዚቃ
• Arabic: موسيقى (musiqa)
• Armenian: երաժշտություն
• Azeri: not, musiqi
• Basque: musika
• Belarusian: muzyka
• Bengali: bAjnA (বাজনা )
• Breton: sonerezh m, muzik m -où pl
• Bulgarian: музика f (1)
• Catalan: música f
• Chamorro: música, dandan
• Chinese character: 樂/楽/乐 (*ngak)
• Chinese: 音樂 /音乐 (yinyue), 樂曲 /乐曲 (yuequ)
• Croatian: arija , glazba , glazbena , glazbene , glazbeni , glazbom , muzika , muziku , note, orkestar
• Czech: hudba

  muziek f (1,2), bladmuziek f (3)

• Esperanto: muziko
• Dutch: muziek

  musiikki (1,2,3)

  musique f

• German: Musik f (1,2,3,5,6), Noten (pl) f (4)
• Greek: mouzike
• Haitian Creole: mizik
• Hawaiian: Mele , pila hoʻokani
• Hebrew: מוסיקה f
• Hiligaynon: lanton
• Hindi: संगीत विद्या, संगीत , राग, लय, ताल, सुर, सुस्वर, तालैक्य
• Hungarian: zene , énekóra , kotta
• i-Kiribati: te katangitang

  musica

  ceol m1

  musica f

  音楽 (おんがく, ongaku)

• Korean: 음악 [音樂] (eumak)

  musica f

• Malagasy: mozika

  Musikk

• Farsi: moosiqi , hang
• Frisian: muzyk

  muzyka f

  música f

  muzică f

  музыка f

  música f

• Scottish Gaelic: ceòl nm. g.v. ciùil
• Slovak: hudba
• Swedish: musik
• Turkish: müzik
• Ukrainian: музика

Further reading

• Wikipedia article on the definition of music

Interlingua

Pronunciation

IPA: [ˈmuzik]

Adjective

music

1. musical, of, or pertaining to music.

Synonym

1. musical