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Mozart

/ˈməʊtsɑːt/US/ˈmoʊtsɑɹt/

Mozart noun: by analogy with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a musical virtuoso.

Noun

Mozart (plural Mozarts)

  1. By analogy with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a musical virtuoso.
    • One child is a Mozart with a flying start, while another foots it, and makes little way; but the course is the same, being set by the object.1933, Sir William Mitchell, The Place of Minds in the World, page 142
    • He is a Mozart in the insect world, sending out his strain upon the evening air.1911, Joseph Lane Hancock, Nature Sketches in Temperate America: A Series of Sketches and Popular Account of Insects, Birds,..., page 103
  2. By extension, a virtuoso in any field.
    • There is a Mozart of competitive eating who is yet to reveal himself.2006, Ryan A Nerz, Eat This Book: a year of gorging and glory on the competitive eating circuit, page 67
    • Li Po is the most musical, most versatile, and most engaging of Chinese poets, a Mozart of words.2001, Victor H. Mair, The Columbia History of Chinese Literature, page 296

Proper noun

Mozart (plural Mozarts)

  1. A surname from German; (music) used specifically of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.
    • How do we know what we think we know about Mozart? And why is he still the most popular composer of the western classical tradition? He is one of the most written-about, dissected and mythologised composers in the history of western music.2005 September 16, Nicholas Kenyon, “Myth, Muzak and Mozart”, in The Guardian
    • Of course, this only raises once more the conundrum why the general public should value gothic cathedrals, Mozart's operas, and Kafka's stories so highly, but not the Method of Infinite Descent or Fourier analysis.1999, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, translated by Tom Artin, Drawbridge Up: Mathematics—A Cultural Anathema, Natick, MA: A K Peters, page 25
  2. A locality in the Oberon council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.

Mozart meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Arabic and Persian

Mozart in Hindi

surname
मोत्सार्ट motsārṭ

Mozart in Tamil

தனிச்சிறப்பு வாய்ந்த‌, ஐரோப்பிய இசைக்கலைஞர்

Mozart in Arabic

surname
مُوتْسَارْت mūtsart

Mozart in Persian

surname
موتسارت môtsârt
More languagesFewer languages
Mozart in Thai
โมทซาร์ท

Examples of Mozart in a sentence

  • [W]e can understand how a father who is a good musician may have a son who is a Mozart—a genius in music...a. 1875, Henry Ward Beecher, Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons Preached in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn (1875) p. 446
  • Joyce Carol Oates has said, "If there is a Mozart of interviewers, Larry Grobel is that individual."2001, Lawrence Grobel, Endangered Species: Writers Talk about Their Craft, Their Visions, Their Lives:
  • In contrast, MacDonald's Gibbie is not only a moral prodigy, but also a Mozart of religious sensibility.2001, Kathryn Ann Lindskoog, Surprised by C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and Dante: An Array of Original Discoveries, page 116:
  • By the same token, Rembrandt resembled Hawthorne, and the architect who had designed Melrose Abbey was a Mozart among architects.1976, Noel Bertram Gerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe: a biography, page 86:

Forms of Mozart

Noun
pluralMozarts
Proper noun
pluralMozarts

Origin of Mozart

Borrowed from German Mozart. First recorded in the 14th century as Middle High German Mozahrt, from motzen (“to roll in filth”); originally used as a given name with the -hart suffix, as a name for dirty or sloppy people.

Words formed from Mozart

Phrases with Mozart

Questions about Mozart

What does Mozart mean?
Mozart means by analogy with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a musical virtuoso.
What is Mozart in Hindi?
Mozart in Hindi is मोत्सार्ट (motsārṭ). See Mozart meaning in Hindi.
How do you use Mozart in a sentence?
[W]e can understand how a father who is a good musician may have a son who is a Mozart—a genius in music...
What part of speech is Mozart?
Mozart can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Mozart?
Mozart is pronounced /ˈməʊtsɑːt/ (UK).
What is the plural of Mozart?
The plural of Mozart is Mozarts.

Words near Mozart in the dictionary

  1. Mozarabite
  2. Mozarabites
  3. Mozarabs
  4. mozarkite
  5. MOzarks
  6. Mozart
  7. Mozart and Liszt
  8. Mozart ball
  9. Mozart balls
  10. Mozart effect
  11. Mozartean

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Mozart (page history and authors); mozart (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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