muse
noun/mjuːz/
/mjuːz/
- a person or spirit that gives a writer, painter, etc. ideas and the desire to create things synonym inspiration
- He felt that his muse had deserted him (= that he could no longer write, paint, etc.).
- Muse(in ancient Greek and Roman stories) one of the nine goddesses who encouraged poetry, music and other branches of art and literature
Word Originnoun late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin musa, from Greek mousa ‘muse’.
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