1 a person or spirit that gives a writer, painter, musician, etc. ideas and the desire to create things:
He felt that his muse had deserted him (= that he could no longer write, paint, etc.).
2 (Muse) (in ancient Greek and Roman stories) one of the nine GODDESSES who encouraged poetry, music and other branches of art and literature
verb (written)
1 [V] ~ (about / on / over / upon sth) to think carefully about sth for a time, ignoring what is happening around you:
I sat quietly, musing on the events of the day.
2 to say sth to yourself in a way that shows you are thinking carefully about it:
[Vspeech] 'I wonder why?' she mused. [also Vthat]
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is muse a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, muse is tagged as noun.
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