INTERLUDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interlude mean? 

• INTERLUDE (noun)
  The noun INTERLUDE has 2 senses:

1. an intervening period or episode

2. a brief show (music or dance etc) inserted between the sections of a longer performance

  Familiarity information: INTERLUDE used as a noun is rare.

• INTERLUDE (verb)
  The verb INTERLUDE has 1 sense:

1. perform an interlude

  Familiarity information: INTERLUDE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERLUDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An intervening period or episode

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("interlude" is a kind of...):

interval; time interval (a definite length of time marked off by two instants)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "interlude"):

entr'acte (the interlude between two acts of a play)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A brief show (music or dance etc) inserted between the sections of a longer performance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

entr'acte; interlude; intermezzo

Hypernyms ("interlude" is a kind of...):

show (the act of publicly exhibiting or entertaining)

Domain category:

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

Derivation:

interlude (perform an interlude)

• INTERLUDE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perform an interlude

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

The guitar player interluded with a beautiful improvisation

Hypernyms (to "interlude" is one way to...):

perform (give a performance (of something))

Domain category:

music (musical activity (singing or whistling etc.))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

interlude (a brief show (music or dance etc) inserted between the sections of a longer performance)

 Context examples 

A frequent interlude of these performances was the enactment of the part of Eutychus by some half-dozen of little girls, who, overpowered with sleep, would fall down, if not out of the third loft, yet off the fourth form, and be taken up half dead.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)