Thesaurus: interlude

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1. n. A short entertainment exhibited on the stage between the acts of a play, or between the play and the afterpiece, to relieve the tedium of waiting.
2. n. A form of English drama or play, usually short, merry, and farcical, which succeeded the Moralities or Moral Plays in the transition to the romantic or Elizabethan drama.
3. n. A short piece of instrumental music played between the parts of a song or cantata, or the acts of a drama; especially, in church music, a short passage played by the organist between the stanzas of a hymn, or in German chorals after each line.
4. n. an intervening period or episode
5. n. a brief show (music or dance etc.) inserted between the sections of a longer performance
6. v. perform an interlude
7. 1. A short entertainment exhibited on the stage between the acts of a play, or between the play and the afterpiece, to relieve the tedium of waiting. Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes When monarch reason sleeps. Dryden. 2. A form of English drama or play, usually short, merry, and farcical, which succeeded the Moralities or Moral Plays in the transition to the romantic or Elizabethan drama. 3. (Mus.) A short piece of instrumental music played between the parts of a song or cantata, or the acts of a drama; especially, in church music, a short passage played by the organist between the stanzas of a hymn, or in German chorals after each line.
8. A short piece of instrumental music played between the parts ofa song or cantata, or the acts of a drama; especially, in churchmusic, a short passage played by the organist between the stanzas ofa hymn, or in German chorals after each line.
9. n:100 n. an intervening period or episode n. a brief show (music or dance etc) inserted between the sections of a longer performance v. perform an interlude