Medleyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈmɛdli/
• 韻: -ɛdli

名詞

medley (plural medleys)

1. (now rare, archaic) Combat, fighting; a battle. [from 14c.]
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “lxxj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:

     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

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   • 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

2. A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things. [from 17c.]

   Synonym: macédoine

   a fruit medley

   • 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 6:

     this medley of philosophy and war

   • 1692, William Walsh, Letters and Poems, Amorous and Gallant:

     Love is a medley of endearments, jars, / Suspicions, reconcilements, wars.

3. (music) A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece. [from 17c.]

   They played a medley of favorite folk songs as an encore.

4. (swimming) A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle. [from 20th c.]
5. A cloth of mixed colours.
   • 1631, Thomas Fuller, Comment on Ruth , Chapter 1, verses 9, 10, 11:

     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

同意語

• mashup

派生語

関連する語

• meddle
• melee

動詞

medley (third-person singular simple present medleys, present participle medleying, simple past and past participle medleyed)

1. (music) To combine, to form a medley.

アナグラム

• yelmed