medley

Meanings

Noun

• Combat, fighting; a battle.
• A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things.
• A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece.
• A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle.
• A cloth of mixed colours.

Verb

• To combine, to form a medley.

Related

Similar words

• mashup

Origin

• From Middle English medle, from Anglo-Norman medlee, Old French medlee, from Late Latin misculata, feminine past participle of Vulgar Latin *misculō. Compare meddle. melee.