Medley
Definitions
- Combat, fighting; a battle.
- A surname.
- A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things.
- A place name:
- A town in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.
- A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece.
- An unincorporated community in Grant County, West Virginia, United States.
- A community in the city of Cold Lake, Municipal District of Bonnyville, Alberta, Canada.
- A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle.
- A cloth of mixed colours.
Equivalents
Examples
“Thenne came the kyng of Irland and the kynge of the stryete marches to rescowe syre Tristram and sire Palomydes / There beganne a grete medle / & many knyghtes were smyten doune on bothe partyes / and alweyes sir launcelot spared sir Tristram / and he spared hym”
“For greater shields they have⟳, than that they can either doe or see⟳ ought, and being raunged by hundreds no doubt⟳ they will hinder one another in the medley, except some very few”
“a fruit medley”
“this medley of philosophy and war”
“Love⟳ is a medley of endearments, jars, / Suspicions, reconcilements, wars.”
“They played a medley of favorite folk songs as an encore.”
“Otherwise , as our Saviour noteth , when the old Cloth was joyned to the new , it made no good medley , but the Rent⟳ was made the wors”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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