medley
noun/ˈmedli/
/ˈmedli/
- a piece of music consisting of several songs or tunes played or sung one after the other
- a medley of Beatles hits
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- a mixture of people or things of different kinds
- a medley of flavours/smells
- The building was a medley of styles from different periods.
- a swimming race in which swimmers use a different stroke (= style of swimming) for each section of the race, either individually or in teams
- the 4 × 100 metres medley
Word OriginMiddle English (denoting hand-to-hand combat, also cloth made of different coloured wool): from Old French medlee, variant of meslee ‘melee’, based on medieval Latin misculare ‘to mix’; compare with meddle.
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