Noun: medley
| Singular | medley |
| Plural | medleys |
Sample Sentences
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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 [1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “lxxj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:]
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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 few [1632, Xenophon, translated by Philemon Holland, Cyrupaedia:]
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a fruit medley
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this medley of philosophy and war [1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 31:]
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Love is a medley of endearments, jars, / Suspicions, reconcilements, wars. [1692, William Walsh, Letters and Poems, Amorous and Gallant:]
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They played a medley of favorite folk songs as an encore.
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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 wors [1631, Thomas Fuller, Comment on Ruth , Chapter 1, verses 9, 10, 11:]
Nouns inflected like medley
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
medle'.
Verbs referencing "medley"
Danish Nouns
medley, Dutch Nouns
medley, Swedish Nouns
medley.