interlude

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A short period or event that comes between two longer ones.

   The quiet weekend was a welcome interlude before the busy month ahead.

2. 2
   noun

   A short piece of music or entertainment performed between the main parts of a longer show.

   A brief piano interlude separated the two acts of the play.

3. 3
   verb

   To insert or perform something as an interlude.

   The guitarist interluded with a beautiful improvisation between songs.

Simplified etymology

Interlude derives from Latin inter, “between” or “among,” and ludus, “a play.” In medieval English it denoted a short, often comic dramatic piece performed between parts of a long play; it later came to mean the interval itself and then any intervening time, space, or event.

Latin inter- (“between”) + ludo (“to play”)

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