Meaning of Medley | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Combat, fighting; a battle.
   archaic
2. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
3. A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things.
4. A place name:
   countable, uncountable
5. A town in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.
   countable, uncountable
6. A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece.
7. An unincorporated community in Grant County, West Virginia, United States.
   countable, uncountable
8. A community in the city of Cold Lake, Municipal District of Bonnyville, Alberta, Canada.
   countable, uncountable
9. A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle.
10. 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”

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