Music is organised sound that people sing, play and dance to. Listen to music, play music, live music.
It is uncountable — a piece of music, not a music. Music also means the written notation: read music, bring your music. Face the music means to accept the consequences of what you did. Music to my ears means exactly what somebody wanted to hear. Note musician, musical, and that music theory, music therapy and music technology are three quite separate fields.
1nounmusicOrganised sound that people sing, play and dance to.~88%
“There was music coming from somewhere all afternoon.”
2nounnotationWritten notation for sound.~12%
“She can read music and prefers not to.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 8 sentences found in the wild and placed 8 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
music is an art of sound.
Greek mousike meant the art of the Muses, the nine goddesses of poetry, dance, history and astronomy. Music, museum, mosaic and amuse all descend from them, and the Greeks classed music with astronomy rather than with entertainment.
Proto-Indo-European
*men- (think)
Ancient Greek
μουσική
Latin
mūsica
Old French
musique
Anglo-Norman
musik
Middle English
musik
English, today
music
From Middle English musik, musike, borrowed from Anglo-Norman musik, musike, Old French musique, and their source Latin mūsica, from Ancient Greek μουσική, from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (“Muse”), an Ancient Greek deity of the arts. by surface analysis, muse + -ic. In this sense, displaced native Old English drēam (“music”), whence Modern English dream. Fully displaced sweġl.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA