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med·ley  (mdl)

n. pl. med·leys

1. An often jumbled assortment; a mixture: "That night he dreamed he was traveling in a foreign country, only it seemed to be a medley of all the countries he'd ever been to and even some he hadn't" (Anne Tyler).

2. Music An arrangement made from a series of melodies, often from various sources.

3. Sports An event in competitive swimming in which backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and freestyle are swum in equal distances by an individual or as divisions of a relay race.

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[Middle English medlee, from Anglo-Norman medlee, meddling, from past participle of medler, to meddle; see meddle.]

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medley [ˈmɛdlɪ]

n

1. a mixture of various types or elements

2. (Music, other) a musical composition consisting of various tunes arranged as a continuous whole

3. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Athletics (Track & Field)) Also called medley relay

a.  Swimming a race in which a different stroke is used for each length

b.  Athletics a relay race in which each leg has a different distance

4. an archaic word for melee

adj

of, being, or relating to a mixture or variety

[from Old French medlee, from medler to mix, quarrel]

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Medley a mixture, jumble, hotchpotch; a mixed literary or musical composition.

Examples: medley of astrology and homely reciepts, 1897; of houses, 1885; of mirth with sadness, 1529; of music; of many nations, 1652; of philosophy and rhetoric, 1865; of sounds; of tunes; of voices; of sense and madness, 1755.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

medley - a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources pastiche, potpourri musical composition, opus, piece of music, composition, piece - a musical work that has been created; "the composition is written in four movements"

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medley

noun mixture, confusion, jumble, assortment, patchwork, pastiche, mixed bag (informal), potpourri, mélange (French), miscellany, mishmash, farrago, hotchpotch, hodgepodge, salmagundi, olio, gallimaufry, omnium-gatherum a medley of traditional songs

Translations

medley [ˈmedlɪ] N (= mixture) → mezcla f; (= miscellany) → miscelánea f (Mus) → popurrí m

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medley [ˈmɛdli] n

[songs, tunes] → pot-pourri m; [shapes, colours, styles] → pot-pourri m

(SWIMMING) → quatre-nages m

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medley

n → Gemisch nt; (Mus) → Potpourri nt, → Medley nt

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medley [ˈmɛdlɪ] n (mixture) → miscuglio, accozzaglia (Mus) → pot-pourri m inv, selezione f

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medley [ˈmɛdlɪ] n (mixture) → miscuglio, accozzaglia (Mus) → pot-pourri m inv, selezione f

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medley

n medley [ˈmedli]

a piece of music put together from a number of other pieces She sang a medley of old songs. keur أغنيَه مَزيج من أغنِيات مُخْتَلِفَه смесица směs potpourri; medley das Potpourri ποτ πουρί popurrí popurrii قطعه موسیقی مختلط potpuri pot-pourri מַחֲרוֹזֶת שִׁירִים अलग अलग का मेलचीजों या व्यक्तियों mješavina egyveleg bunga rampai nyanyian lagasyrpa pot-pourri メドレー 혼성곡, 메들리 popuri popūrijs aneka potpourri potpurri składanka, potpourri miscelânea potpuriu попурри zmes venček mešavina potpurri, medley เพลงผสม potpuri 集成曲 попурі مختلف دھنوں سے ترتیب دی ہوئی موسیقی bản nhạc hỗn hợp 集成曲