Medley

Noun

 * 1)  Combat, fighting; a battle.
 * 2) * 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X:
 * Than cam the Kynge of Irelonde and the Kynge of the Streyte Marchis to rescowe Sir Trystram and Sir Palomydes; and there began a grete medlé, and many knyghtys were smyttyn downe on bothe partyes.
 * 1) A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things.
 * a fruit medley
 * 1)  A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece.
 * They played a medley of favorite folk songs as an encore.
 * 1)  A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle.

Related terms

 * meddle
 * melee

Verb

 * 1)  To combine, to form a medley.

Thesaurus
agglomeration, all sorts, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious, assemblage, assortment, bicolor, bicolored, blend, blended, brew, broad spectrum, capriccio, caprice, chromatic, cold, collectanea, collection, colorful, colorific, coloring, colory, combination, combined, complex, composite, compound, compounded, conglomerate, conglomeration, cool, crazy, daedal, dappled, dichromatic, divers-colored, divertissement, eclectic, equivocal, fantasia, farrago, fifty-fifty, gallimaufry, glowing, goulash, half-and-half, harlequin, harmonious, hash, heterogeneous, hodgepodge, hotchpot, hotchpotch, humoresque, indiscriminate, intricate, ironic, jumble, jumbled, kaleidoscopic, magpie, many-colored, many-sided, mash, matching, melange, mess, mingle-mangle, mingled, miscellanea, miscellaneous, miscellany, mishmash, mix, mixed, mixed bag, mixture, monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic, motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicolorous, multifaceted, multinational, multiracial, oddments, odds and ends, olio, olla podrida, omnium gatherum, omnium-gatherum, parti-color, parti-colored, pasticcio, pastiche, patchwork, patchy, pigmentary, pluralistic, polychromatic, polychrome, polychromic, potpourri, prismal, prismatic, promiscuous, rainbow, romance, romanza, salad, salmagundi, sauce, scramble, scrambled, shot, shot through, spectral, stew, sundries, syncretic, thrown together, thunder and lightning, tinctorial, tingent, toning, trichromatic, trichromic, tricolor, tricolored, two-tone, varicolored, varied, variegated, variety, versicolor, versicolored, warm, what you will

Etymology
From medle:, from  medlee:,  medlee:, from  misculata:, feminine past participle of misculare:. Compare meddle:.

Noun

 * Armenian: խառնուրդ
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Hungarian: keverék, egyveleg


 * Italian: macedonia, misto, miscuglio, mescolanza
 * Romanian: amestec, amestecătură
 * Russian: смесь, мешанина, смешение


 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian: egyveleg
 * Italian: varietà, insieme, potpourri


 * Romanian: potpuriu
 * Russian: попурри
 * Slovene: venček


 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian: misto
 * Russian: комплексное плавание

Anagrams

 * yelmed

Noun

 * 1) medley (of songs; swimming event)
 * Carola sang et medley af "Fame" og "Flashdance" ved koncerten.
 * Carola sang a medley of "Fame" and "Flashdance" at the concert.

Etymology
From medley:.