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Definition of medleys in English English dictionary
- medley
- A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece
They played a medley of favorite folk songs as an encore.
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- A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things
a fruit medley.
- medley
- A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle
- medley
- Combat, fighting; a battle
Than cam the Kynge of Irelonde and the Kynge of the Streyte Marchis to rescowe Sir Trystram and Sir Palomydes; and there began a grete medlé, and many knyghtys were smyttyn downe on bothe partyes.
- medley
- To combine, to form a medley
- medley
- a composition of different songs or parts of songs arranged to run as a continuous whole
- medley
- {n} a mixture, miscellany, hotchpotch
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- In music, a medley is a collection of different tunes or songs that are played one after the other as a single piece of music. a medley of traditional songs
- medley
- A composition of passages detached from several different compositions; a potpourri
- medley
- A cloth of mixed colors
- medley
- The confusion of a hand to hand battle; a brisk, hand to hand engagement; a mêlée
- medley
- {s} mixed, blended, jumbled (Archaic)
- medley
- a collection or mixture of complementary things
- medley
- A mixture; a mingled and confused mass of ingredients, usually inharmonious; a jumble; a hodgepodge; often used contemptuously
- medley
- a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources
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- Mingled; confused
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- In sport, a medley is a swimming race in which the four main strokes are used one after the other. Japan won the Men's 200 metres Individual Medley
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- Mixed; of mixed material or color
- medley
- {i} musical composition which is comprised of a number of separate melodies from other musical pieces; mixture, potpourri, jumble