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musemes

musemes is the plural of museme.

Meaning of museme

Noun

museme (plural musemes)

  1. A minimal unit of musical meaning, analogous to a morpheme in linguistics.
    • Having established extramusical 'meaning' at the micro level, one should proceed to the explanation of the ways musemes are combined, simultaneously and successively.2000, Richard Middleton, Reading Pop : Approaches to Textual Analysis in Popular Music

Questions about musemes

What is musemes the plural of?
Musemes is the plural of museme.

Words near musemes in the dictionary

  1. museless
  2. muselessness
  3. muselike
  4. musematic
  5. museme
  6. musemes
  7. Musenden
  8. museographer
  9. museographers
  10. museographic
  11. museographical

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