MUSIC • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Music

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/mjˈuzɪk/ Listen

Music

noun

An artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner.

Any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds. Synonym: euphony.

Musical activity (singing or whistling etc.).

(music) the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments (or reproductions of such sounds).

Punishment for one's actions. Synonym: medicine. "Take your medicine"

See more definitions of Music...

See images of 'Music'

Related searches:

African-American music

1 2 Next

Share |

"Music" Quotes from Famous Books

... tremendously excited. He could never remember being quite so excited before. It was all very thrilling, of course, with the dancing and the music and the lights, but there was more than that in it. Stephen was so unlike himself, but then possibly Christmas made him sad, because he would be thinking of last Christmas and the happy time that he had had because his girl had been with him—but there was more ...

— Fortitude • Hugh Walpole

... said of Mr. Willings that his happy smile always walks in front of him. This smile makes music of his life, it means that once again he has been chosen, in his opinion, as the central figure in romance. No one can well have led a more drab existence, but he will never know it; he will always think of himself, humbly though elatedly, ...

— Echoes of the War • J. M. Barrie

... rousing Fourth-of-July celebration. In some of the towns the brass bands come out and add to the jollity of the day by marching around and playing "My Maryland" and "Dixie"; while the soldier companies parade up and down the streets to the strains of joyous music and fire salutes ...

— Our Holidays - Their Meaning and Spirit; retold from St. Nicholas • Various

... neither. There's Dick Muggins the exciseman, Jack Slang the horse doctor, Little Aminadab that grinds the music box, and Tom Twist ...

— She Stoops to Conquer - or, The Mistakes of a Night. A Comedy. • Oliver Goldsmith

... that the Chadwicks had built generations ago. The high arched door was never opened of late years, except at long intervals, when some one came out from the city to hold services. But the side door was certainly ajar now, for the saddest music that John Jay had ever heard in all his life came trembling out ...

— Ole Mammy's Torment • Annie Fellows Johnston

More quotes...