music
/ˈmju.zɪk/ noun A1- A series of sounds organized in time, usually employing some combination of harmony, melody, rhythm, tempo, timbre, sound design, lyrics, etc., often to convey a mood. · I keep listening to this music because it’s a masterpiece.
- Any interesting or pleasing sounds.
- An art form, created by organizing pitch, rhythm, and sounds made using musical instruments and/or singing.
- A guide to playing or singing a particular tune; sheet music.
- Electronic signal jamming.
- Heated argument.
- Fun; amusement.
Plural musics
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She had promised to pay for a quarter’s music lessons for Diana, but now she is determined to do nothing at all for such a tomboy.
The tinkles of sleigh bells among the snowy hills came like elfin chimes through the frosty air, but their music was not sweeter than the song in Anne’s heart and on her lips.
It was fringed in all its length with slim young birches, white stemmed and lissom boughed; ferns and starflowers and wild lilies-of-the-valley and scarlet tufts of pigeonberries grew thickly along it; and always there was a delightful spiciness in the air and music of bird calls and the murmur and laugh of wood winds in the trees overhead.
All the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was possible to conceive.
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