interlude
pronunciation
How to pronounce interlude in British English:
UK [ˈɪntəluːd]
How to pronounce interlude in American English:
US [ˈɪntərluːd]
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- Noun:
- an intervening period or episode
- a brief show (music or dance etc) performed between the sections of another performance
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- Verb:
- perform an interlude
Word Origin
- interlude (n.)
- c. 1300, from Medieval Latin interludium "an interlude," from Latin inter- "between" (see inter-) + ludus "a play" (see ludicrous). Originally farcical episodes introduced between acts of long mystery plays; transferred sense of "interval in the course of some action" is from 1751.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Two major implications of the keynesian interlude are the following .
- 2. So history may look back on the past 60 years as an interlude .
- 3. After a brief interlude of net immigration , the irish are emigrating once again .
- 4. It is an odd but stirring interlude , at least at first .
- 5. The political and economic environment in which marx wrote was a brief interlude in economic history .