Music

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Table of contents

1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 Further reading 2 Interlingua 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Adjective 2.3 Synonym

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. (capital M) the subject devoting to song and playing instruments
6. Wonderful.

Synonyms

• melody

Derived terms

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

Translations

• Arabic: موسيقى (musiqa)
• Breton: sonerezh m, muzik m -où pl
• Bulgarian: музика f (1)
• Catalan: música f
• Chinese character: 樂/楽/乐 (*ngak)
• Chinese: 音樂/音乐 (yinyue), 樂曲/乐曲 (yuequ)
• Dutch: muziek f (1,2), bladmuziek f (3)
• Esperanto: muziko
• Finnish: musiikki (1,2,3)
• French: musique f
• German: Musik f
• Greek: mouzike
• Hebrew: מוסיקה f
• Interlingua: musica
• Irish: ceol
• Italian: musica f
• Japanese: 音楽 (おんがく, ongaku)
• Korean: 음악 [音樂] (eumak)
• Latin: musica f
• Norwegian: Musikk
• Polish: muzyka f
• Portuguese: música f
• Romanian: muzică f
• Russian: музыка f
• Spanish: música f
• Slovak: hudba
• Turkish: müzik

Further reading

• Wikipedia article on music
• Wikipedia article on the definition of music

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Interlingua

Pronunciation

IPA: [ˈmuzik]

Adjective

music

1. musical, of, or pertaining to music.

Synonym

1. musical