Definitions for amuse
əˈmyuzamuse

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.7 / 3 votes

1. amuse, divert, disportverb

   occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion

   "The play amused the ladies"

2. amuseverb

   make (somebody) laugh

   "The clown amused the children"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. amuseverb

   To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing emotions.

2. amuseverb

   To cause laughter, to be funny.

3. amuseverb

   To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude.

   He amused his followers with idle promises. -Johnson.

4. amuseverb

   To divert attention, to distract, to bewilder.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To AMUSEverb

   Etymology: amuser, Fr.

   1. To entertain with tranquillity; to fill with thoughts that engage the mind, without distracting it. To divert implies something more lively, and to please, something more important. It is therefore frequently taken in a sense bordering on contempt.

   They think they see visions, and are arrived to some extraordinary revelations; when, indeed, they do but dream dreams, and amuse themselves with the fantastick ideas of a busy imagination. Decay of Piety.

   I cannot think it natural for a man, who is much in love, to amuse himself with trifles. William Walsh.

   2. To draw on from time to time; to keep in expectation; as, he amused his followers with idle promises.

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1. amuse

   Amusement is the state of experiencing humorous and entertaining events or situations while the person or animal actively maintains the experience, and is associated with enjoyment, happiness, laughter and pleasure. It is an emotion with positive valence and high physiological arousal. Amusement is considered an "epistemological" emotion because humor occurs when one experiences a cognitive shift from one knowledge structure about a target to another, such as hearing the punchline of a joke. The pleasant surprise that happens from learning this new information leads to a state of amusement which people often express through smiling, laughter or chuckling. Current studies have not yet reached consensus on the exact purpose of amusement, though theories have been advanced in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and sociology. In addition, the precise mechanism that causes a given element (image, sound, behavior, etc.) to be perceived as more or less 'amusing' than another similar element to a particular individual is not clearly understood.

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1. amuse

   To amuse is to entertain or provide enjoyment to someone, typically by making them laugh or smile. It can also refer to the act of occupying someone's time in a pleasurable way.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Amuse

   to occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder

2. Amuse

   to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing or mirthful emotions; to divert

3. Amuse

   to keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude

4. Amuseverb

   to muse; to mediate

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1. AMuse

   AMuse is a freeware music collection manager for AmigaOS4 that includes Last.fm client functionality . AMuse supports submissions of locally played music, listening to Last.fm similar artists and user library, scrobbling of tracks. AMuse's graphical interface is written in AWNpipe, a handler that provides access to AmigaOS graphical objects, the main program is written in AREXX, Last.fm submissions, playlist retrieval and scrobbling is done by means of Python scripts. Playback is performed by TuneNet. AMuse is developed by Yakov Mindelis.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Amuse

   a-mūz′, v.t. to occupy pleasantly: to divert: to beguile with expectation: (obs.) occupy the attention with: (arch.) to beguile.—adj. Amus′able, capable of being amused.—n. Amuse′ment, that which amuses: pastime.—adj. Amus′ing, affording amusement: entertaining.—adv. Amus′ingly.—n. Amus′ingness.—adj. Amus′ive (rare), having the power to amuse or entertain.—n. Amus′iveness. [Fr. amuser.]

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1. Amuse

   Amuse vs. Bemuse -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Amuse and Bemuse.

Matched Categories

1. • Cheer

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Anagrams for amuse »

1. musea

2. mesua

How to pronounce amuse?

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How to say amuse in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of amuse in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of amuse in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of amuse in a Sentence

1. Dr. Seuss:

   You make ’em, I amuse ’em.

2. Robert Hutchins:

   Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

3. Lady Carnarvon:

   It’s a new step for me. We will welcome people from all over, I expect. Access is going to depend on the time of year. It will be cosy, charming and unique, it’s exciting bringing back to life an old, sad building and again giving it purpose. It is a new departure for us to try short lets and we hope it will amuse people.

4. Evelyn Waugh:

   We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

5. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

   Let us not teach them, but amuse them.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=amuse
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Amuse
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=amuse
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amuse
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/amuse
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=amuse
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=amuse
9. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=amuse