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  1. 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. Source: opted
  2. 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. Source: opted
  3. 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. Source: opted
  4. 4. n. an intervening period or episode Source: wordnet
  5. 5. n. a brief show (music or dance etc.) inserted between the sections of a longer performance Source: wordnet
  6. 6. v. perform an interlude Source: wordnet
  7. 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. Source: webster
  8. 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. Source: adambom
  9. 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 Source: ecdict

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