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発音

• enPR: myo͞oz
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /mjuːz/
  • (General American, Canada) IPA: /mjuz/
  • (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /mjʉːz/
• 異形同音異義語: mews, Meuse
• 韻: -uːz

語源 1

From Middle French muse, from Latin Mūsa, from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa).

名詞

muse (plural muses)

1. Of a person: a source of inspiration.

   Yoko Ono was John Lennon's wife, lover, and muse.

2. (archaic) A poet; a bard.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 85”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     My toung-tide Muſe in manners holds her ſtill,
     While comments of your praiſe richly compil'd,
     Reſerue their Character with goulden quill,
     And precious phraſe by all the Muſes fil’d.

   • 1637, John Milton, “Lycidas”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC:

     So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favour my destined urn

同意語

• (source of inspiration): Pierian spring

派生語

関連する語

• museum
• music

語源 2

From 中期英語 musen, from Old French muser.

動詞

muse (third-person singular simple present muses, present participle musing, simple past and past participle mused)

1. (intransitive) To become lost in thought, to ponder.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ponder

2. (transitive) To say (something) with due consideration or thought.
   • 2026 January 30, Judy Berman, “Catherine O’Hara Portrayed the Vain and Delusional With a Radical Lack of Vanity”, in TIME‎, archived from the original on 1 February 2026:

     When I asked about her affinity for playing self-obsessed artists, O’Hara mused: “Maybe I’m just trying to get it out of my system. I’m so afraid to be like that.”

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:muse.
3. (transitive) To think on; to meditate on.
   • c. 1726, James Thomson, Hymn:

     Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise.

   • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly‎, volume 188, number 26, page 36:

     It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […];  […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.

4. (transitive) To wonder at.
   • c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

     Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed; for what I will, I will, and there an end.

関連する語

• muser
• musing
• amuse

名詞

muse (plural muses)

1. An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     still he sate long time astonished / As in great muse, ne word to creature spake.

   • 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:

     And with this Alan fell into a muse, and for a long time sate very sad and silent.

   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 416:

     He fell into a muse and pulled his upper lip.

語源 3

From French musse. See muset.

名詞

muse (plural muses)

1. A gap or hole in a hedge, fence, etc. through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.

   Find a hare without a muse. (old proverb)

アナグラム

• Semu, emus, umes

名詞

mūse

1. genitive singular of mūs

名詞

muse

1. alternative form of mous

語源 2

名詞

muse

1. alternative form of Muse

語源 3

動詞

muse

1. alternative form of musen