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medley

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English medle, from Anglo-Norman medlee, Old French medlee, from the feminine past participle of early Medieval Latin misculō (“to mix”). Compare meddle. Doublet of melee.

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɛdli/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛdli

Noun

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medley (plural medleys)

  1. (now rare, archaic) Combat, fighting; a battle. [from 14thc.]
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “lxxj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X (in Middle English):
      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
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    • 1632, Xenophon, translated by Philemon Holland, Cyrupaedia:
      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
  2. A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things. [from 17thc.]
    a fruit medley
  4. (music) A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece. [from 17thc.]
    They played a medley of favorite folk songs as an encore.
  5. (swimming) A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle. [from 20th c.]
  6. A cloth of mixed colours.
    • 1631, Thomas Fuller, Comment on Ruth , Chapter 1, verses 9, 10, 11:
      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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Derived terms

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Translations

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Verb

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medley (third-person singular simple present medleys, present participle medleying, simple past and past participle medleyed)

  1. (music) To combine, to form a medley.

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Danish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English medley.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /mɛdli/, [ˈmɛd̥li]

Noun

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medley n (singular definite medleyet, plural indefinite medleyer)

  1. medley (of songs; swimming event)
    Carola sang et medley af "Fame" og "Flashdance" ved koncerten.
    Carola sang a medley of "Fame" and "Flashdance" at the concert.

Inflection

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Declension of medley
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative medley medleyet medleyer medleyerne
genitive medleys medleyets medleyers medleyernes

Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English medley.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: med‧ley

Noun

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medley m (plural medleys, diminutive medleytje n)

  1. several songs strung together

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English medley. Doublet of mezclada.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmedlei/ [ˈmeð̞.lei̯]
  • Rhymes: -edlei
  • Syllabification: med‧ley

Noun

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medley m (plural medleys)

  1. medley (songs)

Usage notes

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According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Swedish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English medley.

Noun

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medley n or c

  1. (music, neuter) medley (song that mixes other songs)
  2. (swimming, common) medley (competition that mixes different forms of swimming)

Declension

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(music):

Declension of medley
nominative genitive
singular indefinite medley medleys
definite medleyt medleyts
plural indefinite medleyn medleyns
definite medleyna medleynas

(swimming):

Declension of medley
nominative genitive
singular indefinite medley medleys
definite medleyn medleyns
plural indefinite — —
definite — —

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