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medley

[ med-lee ]

noun

, plural med·leys.
  1. a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble.
  2. a piece of music combining tunes or passages from various sources:

    a medley of hit songs from Broadway shows.



adjective

  1. Archaic. mixed; mingled.

medley

/ ˈmɛdlɪ /

noun

  1. a mixture of various types or elements
  2. a musical composition consisting of various tunes arranged as a continuous whole
  3. Also calledmedley relay
    1. swimming a race in which a different stroke is used for each length
    2. athletics a relay race in which each leg has a different distance
  4. an archaic word for melee
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. of, being, or relating to a mixture or variety
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of medley1

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from Anglo-French, Old French medlee, mellee, noun and adjective use of feminine of past participle of medler “to mix, fight”; meddle
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Word History and Origins

Origin of medley1

C14: from Old French medlee, from medler to mix, quarrel
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Example Sentences

The first track was an overture from the game Dragon Quest, according to a list of songs in the medley published by Nikkei.

From Quartz

We stopped at the goal post, and went through a medley of five minutes of all the Penn tunes in a swing version.

The medley of conservative voters, politicians, activists and political commentators that descended on Dallas this past weekend for this year’s second Conservative Political Action Conference certainly did.

It’s also the first simulation to account for the whole medley of physical phenomena thought to influence star formation, researchers report online May 17 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Budweiser Light did this last September when it launched the “Battle of the Best” tournament where some of Twitch’s top streamers and personalities competed against each other in a medley of games.

From Digiday

Not to mention what happens when this medley of men comes back home.

Rumor has it Destiny's Child may be coming out to perform a greatest hits medley in the middle of it.

The jukebox plays a medley of sixties tunes, an apt and agreeable feature.

Years passed and I decided to upload a medley of these ragtime rock songs on YouTube, and that gained some traction.

Thankfully, Monteith's duel with Mr. Schuester provided a perfect opportunity for such a medley.

This monstrous medley gave birth to the macaroni style, the very climax of barbarism.

There were boxes of cakes, fruit, and eggs; and jinrikishas piled with a medley of gifts.

I do not know how I could have looked Elfrida in the face again had he indeed risen no more from that medley.

Three thousand years ago the Italian peninsula presented a veritable medley of races.

We go ashore in a launch and are met on the quay by a medley of strange folk and a great clamour of voices!

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