Medley

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An often jumbled assortment; a mixture: "That night he dreamed he was traveling in a foreign country, only it seemed to be a medley of all the countries he'd ever been to and even some he hadn't” ( Anne Tyler).
  • n. Music An arrangement made from a series of melodies, often from various sources.
  • n. Sports An event in competitive swimming in which backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and freestyle are swum in equal distances by an individual or as divisions of a relay race.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To combine, to form a medley.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A mixture; a mingled and confused mass of ingredients, usually inharmonious; a jumble; a hodgepodge; -- often used contemptuously.
  • n. The confusion of a hand to hand battle; a brisk, hand to hand engagement; a mêlée.
  • n. A composition of passages detached from several different compositions; a potpourri.
  • n. A cloth of mixed colors.
  • adj. Mixed; of mixed material or color.
  • adj. Mingled; confused.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A mixture; a mingled and confused mass of elements, ingredients, or parts; a jumble; a hodgepodge.
  • n. A musical composition, song, or entertainment consisting of incongruous or disjointed scraps or parts selected from different sources; a mélange or potpourri.
  • n. A fabric woven from yarn spun from wool which has been dyed of various colors.
  • n. A hand-to-hand fight; a melley or mêlée.
  • n. Synonyms Miscellany, Jumble, etc. See mixture.
  • Mingled; confused.
  • Mixed; of a mixed stuff or color.
  • To mix.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    mixture    jumble    hodgepodge    mêlée    potpourri    mixed    mingled    confused    mess    hash   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    deadly   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    jumble    assortment    assemblage    uproar    conglomeration    tumult    outburst    diversity    imaginings    multiplicity