MEDLEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does medley mean? 

• MEDLEY (noun)
  The noun MEDLEY has 1 sense:

1. a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources

  Familiarity information: MEDLEY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEDLEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

medley; pastiche; potpourri

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

composition; musical composition; opus; piece; piece of music (a musical work that has been created)

 Context examples 

Emma wondered on what, of all the medley, she would fix.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Above them lay the Englishmen in their lines, even as they had stood, and higher yet upon the plateau a wild medley of the dead of all nations, where the last deadly grapple had left them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her aunt did not neglect her: she wrote again and again; they were receiving frequent accounts from Edmund, and these accounts were as regularly transmitted to Fanny, in the same diffuse style, and the same medley of trusts, hopes, and fears, all following and producing each other at haphazard.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The deep shout of Du Guesclin, the hard, hissing breath of the pressing multitude, the clatter of steel, the thud of falling bodies, and the screams of the stricken, made up such a medley as came often in after years to break upon Alleyne's sleep.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)