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medley
[ med-lee ]
noun
- a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble.
- a piece of music combining tunes or passages from various sources:
a medley of hit songs from Broadway shows.
adjective
- Archaic. mixed; mingled.
medley
/ ˈmɛdlɪ /
noun
- a mixture of various types or elements
- a musical composition consisting of various tunes arranged as a continuous whole
- Also calledmedley relay
- swimming a race in which a different stroke is used for each length
- athletics a relay race in which each leg has a different distance
- an archaic word for melee
adjective
- of, being, or relating to a mixture or variety
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Origin of medley1
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Example Sentences
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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