Usually means: Source of artistic inspiration, creativity.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word muse:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. muse: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. muse: Merriam-Webster
  3. Muse, muse, muse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Muse, muse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. muse: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Muse, muse: Vocabulary.com
  7. Muse, Muse, Muse, muse, muse: Wordnik
  8. Muse, muse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Muse, muse: Wiktionary
  10. muse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. Muse, muse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. muse: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Muse, muse: Dictionary.com
  14. Muse, muse (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. muse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. MUSE (spacecraft), MUSE, MusE, Muse (Band), Muse (EP), Muse (Grace Jones album), Muse (Jolin Tsai album), Muse (Shan State), Muse (apartment building), Muse (band), Muse (building), Muse (children's magazine), Muse (disambiguation), Muse (headband), Muse (surname), Muse, The Muse (album), The Muse (disambiguation), The Muse (film), The Muse (soundtrack), The Muse (student paper), The Muse (website), The Muse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Muse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. muse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. muse: Rhymezone
  20. Muse (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. muse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. muse: FreeDictionary.org
  23. muse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Muse: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. Muse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  26. muse (f), muse (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. muse: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)
  3. MUSE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Muse (Goddess), Muse (Greek mythology), muse: Legal dictionary

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Muse: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. MUSE, MusE: CCI Computer
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. MUSE: ILC Internet Terms
  5. Muse (Goddess), Muse (Greek mythology), muse: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. MUSE: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MUSE: Acronym Finder
  2. muse: A Word A Day
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. muse: Idioms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

(Note: See mused as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (of people) A source of inspiration.
noun:  (archaic) A poet; a bard.
verb:  (intransitive) To become lost in thought, to ponder.
verb:  (transitive) To say (something) with due consideration or thought.
verb:  (transitive) To think on; to meditate on.
verb:  (transitive) To wonder at.
noun:  An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness.
noun:  A gap or hole in a hedge, fence, etc. through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.
noun:  One of the nine Ancient Greek deities of the arts.
noun:  A city in Shan State, Myanmar

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