muse

[[t]mju͟ːz[/t]]

muses, musing, mused

1) VERB If you muse on something, you think about it, usually saying or writing what you are thinking at the same time. [WRITTEN]

[V on/about/over n] Many of the papers muse on the fate of the President...

[V with quote] `As a whole,' she muses, `the `organized church' turns me off'...

[V that] He once mused that he would have voted Labour in 1964 had he been old enough.

Syn:

ponder

Derived words:

musing plural N-COUNT

His musings were interrupted by Montagu who came and sat down next to him.

2) N-COUNT A muse is a person, usually a woman, who gives someone, usually a man, a desire to create art, poetry, or music, and gives them ideas for it.

Once she was a nude model and muse to French artist Henri Matisse.

...the muses who fuel his inspiration.