0 to think about something carefully and for a long time: --
I began to muse about/on the possibility of starting my own business.
1 a person, or an imaginary being or force that gives someone ideas and helps them to write, paint, or make music: --
2 in ancient Greek and Roman stories, one of the nine goddesses who were believed to give encouragement in different areas of literature, art, and music --
3 to think about something carefully and for a long time: --
[ I always + adv/prep ] At breakfast, he allowed himself to muse about his presidency.
4 an imaginary force that gives you ideas and helps you to write, paint, or make music, or a physical representation of this force --
There were nine of them—nine discordant muses, each singing a different song.
They muse also provide encouragement for vibrant economic enterprise where investment, good management and good work are rewarded.
One verb, namely muse, had to be discarded due to its obscure original meaning, which means that we ended up with 21 verbs.
Some common examples found in this corpus are ' siren', ' muse' and ' chanteuse'.
His is a graceful but not a comfortable muse.
For poets, the language of inspiration comes from the hajis and - hal-la, muses that dwell in the world of jinn.
The real, however, is the universal solvent of the comic muse, already ousted in favour of her tragic sister.
Perhaps, as defensive sceptics sometimes muse, our discovery of moral truths can be likened to our investigations of nature.
