Muses Definition

myo͝oziz
noun
The nine goddesses who preside over literature and the arts and sciences: Calliope, Clio, Euterpe, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polyhymnia (or Polymnia), Urania, and Thalia.
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Plural form of muse.

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Third-person singular simple present indicative form of muse.

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Muses Sentence Examples

  • In another version, the Muses were judges and awarded the victory to Apollo, who tied Marsyas to a tree and flayed him alive.

  • The lyre was carried to heaven by the Muses, and was placed amongst the stars.

  • In contrast to these legends, Pausanias tells us that they were regarded as the first to worship the Muses on Mt.

  • His first opera, Les Muses galantes, privately prepared at the house of La Popeliniere, attracted very little attention; but Le Devin du village, given at Fontainebleau in 1752, and at the Academie in 1753, achieved a great and well-deserved success.

  • The women, after playfully pretending for some time to search for the god, desisted, saying that he had hidden himself among the Muses.

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