medley

Meaning

1. Combat, fighting; a battle.
2. 1632, Xenophon, translated by Philemon Holland, Cyrupaedia
3. 1632, Xenophon, translated by Philemon Holland, Cyrupaedia: 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
4. A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things.
5. A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece.
6. A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle.
7. A cloth of mixed colours.

mixture

jumble

musical switch

heterogenous mixture

pelf-mell

hotch-pot

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmɛdli/

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.

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