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"MUSES" is a plural of: muse. |
Date "MUSES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Muses Nine daughters of Jupiter and Mnemosyne, goddesses of poetry, history, and other arts and sciences. The paintings of Herculancum show all nine in their respective attributes. In the National-Museum of Paris is the famous collection with which Pius VI. enriched the Vatican. Lesueur left a celebrated picture of the same subject. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Language | Literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres, muses, humanities, literae humaniores, republic of letters, dead languages, classics; genius of language; scholarship; (scholar). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: MUSES |
| English words defined with "MUSES": Aonian, Aonian fount ♦ Castalian ♦ flying horse ♦ Liakoura ♦ Mnemosyne, Mount Parnassus, Musal, Museless ♦ Parnassus, Pegasus, Pierian, Pierides ♦ The Nine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "MUSES": Aganippe ♦ Castaly, Clio, Corycian Nymphs, Crowns ♦ Gamaheu ♦ Parnassos ♦ Youth Restored. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "MUSES": Pierian. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Hesiod | With the muses of Helicon let us begin our singing. |
Pindar | When toilsome contests have been decided, good cheer is the best physician, and songs, the sage daughters of the Muses, soothe with their touch. |
Solon | Let us sacrifice to the Muses. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | CLIO, n. One of the nine Muses. Clio's function was to preside over history -- which she did with great dignity, many of the prominent citizens of Athens occupying seats on the platform, the meetings being addressed by Messrs. Xenophon, Herodotus and other popular speakers. |
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| "MUSES" is generally used as a lexical verb (-s form) -- approximately 37.61% of the time. "MUSES" is used about 117 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 37.61% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Noun (plural) | 37.61% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Noun (proper) | 24.79% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Total | 100.00% | 117 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "MUSES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | grübelt (ponders). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | usesmay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "MUSES": amuses, animuses, bemuses, euonymuses, evonymuses, exophthalmuses, hippopotamuses, hummuses, humuses, ignoramuses, isthmuses, litmuses, mandamuses, marasmuses, mittimuses, momuses, nystagmuses, primuses, shamuses, sphygmuses, strabismuses, tenesmuses, thymuses, trismuses, vaginismuses, wammuses, wamuses. (additional references) | |
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"MUSES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: masec, mauss, mcse, meses, mezes, Misees, mises, Mosis, mosse, mouses, Moyses, Mozes, msue, Mtsensk, mucels, mucisa, muise, Mukesh, Muness, Musas, Musashi, musea, musee, Museen, Museet, musek, musers, museu, mushes, musie, musles, musse, musser, Mussett, mussies, muze, mysis, umes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "MUSES" (pronounced myuw"zuz) |
| 6 | m y uw" z u z | amuses. |
| 5 | -y uw" z u z | accuses, confuses, diffuses, fuses, fuzes, infuses, misuses, refuses. |
| 4 | -uw" z u z | bruises, chooses, cruises, Lollapaloozas, loses, oozes, ruses. |
| 3 | -z u z | advertises, advises, agonizes, amazes, analyzes, apologizes, appraises, arises, arouses, authorizes, blazes, bowses, breezes, bronzes, brutalizes, buzzes, capitalizes, categorizes, causes, characterizes, chastises, cheeses, clauses, closes, composes, comprises, compromises, criticizes, decomposes, demilitarizes, despises, devises, Dieses, discloses, diseases, disguises, disposes, dozes, dramatizes, eases, emphasizes, energizes, enfranchises, enterprises, epitomizes, espouses, excises, exercises, exposes, extravaganzas, fantasizes, fertilizes, forecloses, formalizes, franchises, freezes, galvanizes, gazes, glazes, guises, hoses, humanizes, idolizes, immortalizes, immunizes, imposes, institutionalizes, ironizes, jeopardizes, joneses, legitimizes, lenses, marginalizes, materializes, maximizes, mazes, minimizes, mises, monopolizes, neutralizes, noises, noses, opposes, organizes, oversizes, paralyzes, pauses, penalizes, personalizes, phases, phrases, Plazas, pleases, polarizes, polymerizes, poses, praises, pressurizes, presupposes, primroses, prioritizes, prizes, proposes, quizzes, raises, realizes, reanalyses, recognizes, reorganizes, revises, rhapsodizes, rises, roses, satirizes, scrutinizes, seizes, sensationalizes, sizes, sneezes, specializes, squeezes, stabilizes, stanzas, sterilizes, storehouses, subsidizes, summarizes, summonses, supervises, supposes, surmises, surprises, symbolizes, sympathizes, tantalizes, teases, terrorizes, theorizes, trivializes, utilizes, visas, warehouses, wheezes, whizzes. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-m-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: emus, mess, muse, muss, sues, sums, uses. | |
-2 letters: ems, emu, ess, mus, sue, sum, use. | |
-3 letters: em, es, me, mu, um, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-m-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: amuses, assume, misuse, mouses, mousse, musers, mushes, mussed, mussel, musses, sebums, sedums, sensum, serums, spumes. | |
+2 letters: amusers, assumed, assumer, assumes, bemuses, besmuts, cesiums, estrums, gumless, humuses, kumyses, masques, masseur, medusas, minuses, miscues, misused, misuser, misuses, momuses, mosques, mousers, moussed, mousses, mucuses, mueslis, muscles, museums, mushers, muskegs, muskets, muskies, mussels, mussier, mustees, musters, mutases, resumes, septums, smudges, subsume, sumless, summers, surmise, unseams, wamuses. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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