musical
See also: Musical
English
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin mūsicālis.
Equivalent to music + -al.
Pronunciation
Audio (US) (file) - IPA(key): /ˈmju.zɪ.kəl/
Adjective
musical (comparative more musical, superlative most musical)
- Of or relating to music.
- Gifted or skilled in music.
- Pleasing to the ear.
- Her voice had a musical quality.
- Pertaining to a class of games in which players move while music plays, but have to take a fixed position when it stops; by extension, any situation where people repeatedly change positions.
- 1962, Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: A Play, Simon and Schuster →ISBN, page 34
- Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
- 2004, Mike Bright, A Dream Realized: A Collection of Poems by Cowboy Mike Bright, Xulon Press →ISBN, page 341
- Musical seats upon an airplane is not a game I recommend.
- 2006, Evelyn Palfrey, The Price of Passion, Simon and Schuster →ISBN, page 441
- “Sounds like y'all are playing musical houses. How did you convince your mama to move to Austin?”
- 2011, Leonard James Schoppa, The Evolution of Japan's Party System: Politics and Policy in an Era of Institutional Change, University of Toronto Press →ISBN, page 14
- Parties were splitting, forming, merging, and dissolving in such rapid succession that the game of musical chairs seemed to describe what was going on better than any known theory of political science.
- 2014, Tyler McMahon, Kilometer 99: A Novel, St. Martin's Griffin →ISBN, page 138
- Among my small circle of college friends, and even more so among the volunteers here, couples are so often changing places, people playing musical lovers.
- 1962, Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: A Play, Simon and Schuster →ISBN, page 34
Derived terms
Derived terms
- musical bow
- musical film
Related terms
Translations
of or relating to music
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gifted or skilled in music
Noun
musical (plural musicals)
Translations
stage performance, show or film
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Catalan
Danish
Inflection
Declension of musical
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | musical | musicalen | musicaler musicals |
musicalerne |
genitive | musicals | musicalens | musicalers musicals' |
musicalernes |
Alternative forms
Derived terms
- film-musical
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /my.zi.kal/
Audio (file)
Adjective
musical (feminine singular musicale, masculine plural musicaux, feminine plural musicales)
Related terms
Further reading
- “musical” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmjuzikɛl]
- Hyphenation: mu‧si‧cal
Noun
musical (plural musicalek)
- musical (a show or film which involves singing, dancing and musical numbers)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | musical | musicalek |
accusative | musicalt | musicaleket |
dative | musicalnek | musicaleknek |
instrumental | musicallel | musicalekkel |
causal-final | musicalért | musicalekért |
translative | musicallé | musicalekké |
terminative | musicalig | musicalekig |
essive-formal | musicalként | musicalekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | musicalben | musicalekben |
superessive | musicalen | musicaleken |
adessive | musicalnél | musicaleknél |
illative | musicalbe | musicalekbe |
sublative | musicalre | musicalekre |
allative | musicalhez | musicalekhez |
elative | musicalből | musicalekből |
delative | musicalről | musicalekről |
ablative | musicaltől | musicalektől |
Possessive forms of musical | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | musicalem | musicaljeim |
2nd person sing. | musicaled | musicaljeid |
3rd person sing. | musicalje | musicaljei |
1st person plural | musicalünk | musicaljeink |
2nd person plural | musicaletek | musicaljeitek |
3rd person plural | musicaljük | musicaljeik |
References
- Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Interlingua
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [muzikˈal]
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Adjective
musical m or f (plural musicais, comparable)
Quotations
For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:musical.
Noun
musical m (plural musicais)
- musical (stage performance, show or film that focuses on singing and dancing)
Quotations
For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:musical.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /musiˈkal/
Related terms
Further reading
- “musical” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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