compose

Meaning

1. (transitive) To make something by merging parts.
2. (transitive) To make up the whole; to constitute.
3. (nonstandard, transitive) To comprise.
4. (intransitive, transitive) To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work.
5. (reflexive, sometimes) To calm; to free from agitation.
6. To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.
7. To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement.
8. To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition.
9. (dated) To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset.

Synonyms

write

✍️

create

make up

constitute

compile

put together

arrange

form

indite

draw up

construct

set

make

prepare

author

combine

pen

🖊️

calm

frame

establish

typeset

build

comprise

compound

composition

adjust

organize

assemble

work

consist

set up

edit

connect

bring together

appease

draw

draught

redact

settle

produce

plan

pacify

melodize

quiet

innovate

draft

contrive

invent

lay

fashion

Translations

composer

componer

comporre

compor

écrire

✍️

komponieren

componeren

συνθέτω

scrivere

✍️

samenstellen

verfassen

✍️

abfassen

escrever

✍️

schreiben

✍️

compondre

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kəmˈpoʊz/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: composen

In summary

From Middle English composen, from Old French composer (“to compose, compound, adjust, settle”), from com- + poser, as an adaptation of Latin componere (“to put together, compose”), from com- (“together”) + ponere (“to put, place”).