medley
UK/ˈmɛdli/
medley noun: combat, fighting; a battle.
Noun
medley (plural medleys)
- Combat, fighting; a battle.
- 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 hym1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “lxxj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X
- 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 few1632, Xenophon, translated by Philemon Holland, Cyrupaedia
- A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things.
- a fruit medley
- this medley of philosophy and war1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 31
- Synonyms:
- macédoine
- A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece.
- They played a medley of favorite folk songs as an encore.
- A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle.
- A cloth of mixed colours.
- 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 wors1631, Thomas Fuller, Comment on Ruth , Chapter 1, verses 9, 10, 11
Verb
medley (third-person singular simple present medleys, present participle medleying, simple past and past participle medleyed)
- To combine, to form a medley.
Proper noun capitalized: Medley
Medley (countable and uncountable, plural Medleys)
- A surname.
- A town in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Grant County, West Virginia, United States.
- A community in the city of Cold Lake, Municipal District of Bonnyville, Alberta, Canada.
medley meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
medley in Hindi
- मेडली, मेडले
medley in Tamil
- மெட்லி, மெட்லி செய்ய
medley in Marathi
- मेडली, मेडले
medley in Urdu
- خلط, کھچڑی, الجھا
More languagesFewer languages
- medley in Bengali
- বিভিন্ন জিনিসের সংমিশ্রণ, খিচুড়ি
- medley in Telugu
- మెడ్లీ
- medley in Malayalam
- മിശ്രിതം, മിശ്രണം, ചേരുവ, അവിയൽ
- medley in Kannada
- ಕಲಬೆರಕೆ, ಕಲಸುಮಲಸು, ಮಿಶ್ರಣ, ಕಲಸು ಮೇಲೋಗರ
- medley in Punjabi
- ਮੈਡਲੀ, ਮੇਡਲੀ
- medley in Gujarati
- મેડલી, મેડલે
- medley in Odia
- ମେଡଲି, ମେଡଲେ, ମେଡ୍ଲି
- medley in Nepali
- मेडली, मेडले, मेडली गर्न
- medley in Indonesian
- rampaian, lagu rampai, pancasuara, empat renang gaya ganti
- medley in Persian
- آمیزه âmiza, آهنگ âhang
- medley in Vietnamese
- liên khúc
Examples of medley in a sentence
- Each will jesuitize for himself I suppose, and these will a beautiful medley.
- As we chopstuck our way through dizzying medley of dishes, Mariko told me she was back working at the university.
- When I tasted it before bottling, it had a medley of sugar, woodiness and typically Chardonnay vegetably taste.
Synonyms of medley
Forms of medley
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | medleys |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | medleys |
| present participle | medleying |
| past participle | medleyed |
| past | medleyed |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Medleys |
Origin of medley
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.
Words formed from medley
Words that rhyme with medley
Questions about medley
- What does medley mean?
- Medley means combat, fighting; a battle.
- What is medley in Hindi?
- Medley in Hindi is मेडली, मेडले. See Medley meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is medley?
- Medley can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce medley?
- Medley is pronounced /ˈmɛdli/ (UK).
- What is the plural of medley?
- The plural of medley is medleys.
Words near medley in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: medley (page history and authors); Medley (page history and authors); medley (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); medley (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); medley (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); medley (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); medley (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); medley (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); medley (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); medley (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); medley (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); medley (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); medley (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); medley (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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