intermission
US/ɪntɚˈmɪʃən/
intermission noun: a break, especially between two performances or sessions, such as at a concert, play, seminar, or religious assembly.
Noun
intermission (plural intermissions)
- A break, especially between two performances or sessions, such as at a concert, play, seminar, or religious assembly.
- We ordered some drinks for the intermission.
- The line turns a sharp right-angle to the north to circumvent the town, and then plunges straight into the 1 in 50, which lasts for nearly 20 miles with few intermissions, and some pitches of 1 in 40.1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 265
intermission meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
intermission in Hindi
- break between performances or sessions
- मध्यांतर madhyāntar, अंतराल antrāl
intermission in Tamil
- break between performances or sessions
- இடைவெளி iṭaiveḷi
intermission in Urdu
- intermission
- تعطیل ta'tīl
intermission in Bengali
- বিরতি
More languagesFewer languages
- intermission in Malayalam
- ഇടവേള iṭavēḷa
- intermission in Kannada
- ಬಿಡುವು, ವಿರಾಮ, ವಿಚ್ಛಿತ್ತಿ
- intermission in Tagalog
- entreakto
- intermission in Arabic
- فاصِل fāṣil
- intermission in Indonesian
- intermeso, selingan
Forms of intermission
| plural | intermissions |
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Origin of intermission
Derived from Latin intermissiō, from intermittō (“interrupt, omit”) + -tiō.
Words formed from intermission
Words that rhyme with intermission
- partition
- position
- proposition
- transition
- mission
- condition
- commission
- transmission
- addition
- admission
- attrition
- expedition
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- remission
- rendition
- exhibition
- submission
- ignition
- inhibition
- inquisition
- intromission
- magician
- omission
- suspicion
- tradition
- dentition
- edition
- patrician
- politician
- tuition
- acquisition
- circumposition
- decommission
- fission
- nutrition
- perdition
- permission
- phonetician
- prohibition
- superposition
- volition
- academician
- aesthetician
- Apician
- clinician
- coalition
- disquisition
- emission
- fruition
- Galician
- on a mission
- optician
- postposition
- premonition
- recommission
- retransition
- sedition
- superstition
- titian
- abligurition
- admonition
Questions about intermission
- What does intermission mean?
- Intermission means a break, especially between two performances or sessions, such as at a concert, play, seminar, or religious assembly.
- What is intermission in Hindi?
- Intermission in Hindi is मध्यांतर (madhyāntar), अंतराल (antrāl). See Intermission meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is intermission?
- Intermission is a noun.
- How do you pronounce intermission?
- Intermission is pronounced /ɪntɚˈmɪʃən/ (US).
- What is the plural of intermission?
- The plural of intermission is intermissions.
Words near intermission in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: intermission (page history and authors); تعطیل (Urdu) (page history and authors); Intermission (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); intermission (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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