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muser

muser noun: one who muses.

Noun (1)

muser (plural musers)

  1. One who muses.

Noun (2)

muser (plural musers)

  1. (historical) A user of the social media service Musical.ly.
    • With cool features for searching for content, sharing your own videos, and remixing work from other musers, there’s terrific potential here for an exciting, creative space for making music.2016 February 19, Patricia Monticello Kievlan, “Musical.ly is a mobile music video community”, in Sun Herald, volume 132, number 139, page 18
    • “One of the differences to other apps,” he [Alex Hofmann] said, “is that we don’t only talk to the musers” – the company’s term for users – “we talk to the parents.”2016 September 25, John Herrman, “Popular video app has grade-school user base”, in Austin American-Statesman, volume 146, number 62, page F4

Proper noun capitalized: Muser

Muser (plural Musers)

  1. A surname.

Noun (3) capitalized: Muser

Muser (plural Musers)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of muser (“user of the social media service Musical.ly”).
    • The resulting short clips can have captions, with hashtags like #featureme, credits for song and artist, comments, “hearts,” and a multitude of easy sharing options, so “Musers” can post to video sites and social media like Instagram and WhatsApp.2016 December 3–4, Jay Dunn, “Overnight sensations”, in The Salinas Californian, volume 155, number 291, page 3A
    • I see YouTubers get mad at Musers. I see nothing wrong with Musers and I don’t see how people can hate on the new kids.2018, Meridith Valiando Rojas, quoting Trevor Moran, Selfie Made: Your Ultimate Guide to Social Media Stardom, Wednesday Books, →ISBN

Examples of muser in a sentence

  • harvey: […] We were thinking of doing something with Amelia Gething and Houssein – it would be nice, because they’re also British musers and we’ve become really good friends.2017, Max Mills; Harvey Mills, Max and Harvey (in a Book), Puffin Books, →ISBN, page 104:
  • For many users — or “musers,” in the app’s parlance — Musical.ly is a positive experience.2017 January 31, John Keilman, “Lip-sync app strikes parents as sour note”, in Chicago Tribune, 169th year, number 31, page 6:
  • It can enable the formation of content that can be five minutes long, compilation of video clips into stories and collaboration on duets with other musers (users of the platform).2018, Summary of 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson + Crushing It by Gary Vaynerchuk 2-in-1 Boxset Bundle, SpeedyReads, →ISBN:
  • Musical.ly allows fans to send gifts to their favorite livestreaming musers which equate to actual cash.2018 July 8, Justin Jacobs, “Zoe Laverne: Musical.ly star shrugs off her bullies”, in The Sunday Star, volume 115, number 364, page 8E:

Forms of muser

Noun
pluralmusers
alternative formMuser
pluralMusers
Proper noun
pluralMusers

Origin of muser

From Middle English musere. By surface analysis, muse + -er.

Likely a blend of Musical.ly (or music/musical) + user.

Questions about muser

What does muser mean?
Muser means one who muses.
How do you use muser in a sentence?
harvey: […] We were thinking of doing something with Amelia Gething and Houssein – it would be nice, because they’re also British musers and we’ve become really good friends.
What part of speech is muser?
Muser can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of muser?
The plural of muser is musers.

Words near muser in the dictionary

  1. museologists
  2. museology
  3. museomics
  4. museophile
  5. museophiles
  6. muser
  7. musers
  8. muses
  9. musest
  10. muset
  11. museth

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: muser (page history and authors); Muser (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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