• (British) IPA: /ˈmɛdli/

medley (plural medleys)

1. (now rare, archaic) Combat, fighting; a battle. [from 14^thc.]
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:12.71?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter lxxj], in Le Morte Darthur, book X:

     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

2. A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things. [from 17^thc.]

   a fruit medley

   • 1713, Joseph Addison, Cato, published 1712, [Act 2, scene 6]:

     this medley of philosophy and war

   • Love is a medley of endearments, jars, / Suspicions, reconcilements, wars.

3. (music) A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece. [from 17^thc.]

   They played a medley of favorite folk songs as an encore.

4. (swimming) A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle. [from 20th c.]
5. A cloth of mixed colours.

• mashup

• meddle
• melee

• French: mélange, salade
• German: Allerlei, bunte Mischung, buntes Durcheinander
• Italian: macedonia, misto, miscuglio, mescolanza
• Russian: смесь

• French: pot-pourri
• German: Medley, Potpourri, Melodienreigen, Melodienfolge, bunter Melodienstrauß, Liederstrauß
• Italian: varietà, insieme, potpourri
• Portuguese: potpourri, pot-pourri
• Russian: попурри́
• Spanish: popurrí, mosaico, variedad, misculata, insiemel

• French: 4 nages
• Italian: misto
• Russian: ко́мплексное пла́вание

medley (medleys, present participle medleying; past and past participle medleyed)

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

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