MOZART

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mozart mean? 

• MOZART (noun)
  The noun MOZART has 2 senses:

1. prolific Austrian composer and child prodigy; master of the classical style in all its forms of his time (1756-1791)

2. the music of Mozart

  Familiarity information: MOZART used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOZART (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prolific Austrian composer and child prodigy; master of the classical style in all its forms of his time (1756-1791)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Mozart; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Instance hypernyms:

composer (someone who composes music as a profession)

Derivation:

Mozartean; Mozartian (of or relating to or in the manner of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The music of Mozart

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

the concert was mostly Mozart

Hypernyms ("Mozart" is a kind of...):

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

Derivation:

Mozartean (of or relating to or in the manner of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

 Context examples 

As the word 'brotherly' passed through his mind in one of his reveries, he smiled, and glanced up at the picture of Mozart that was before him...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Returning from one of Mozart's grand operas, splendidly performed at the Royal Theatre, he looked over his own, played a few of the best parts, sat staring at the busts of Mendelssohn, Beethoven, and Bach, who stared benignly back again.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)