Words Like INTERLUDE
    
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            5 Alternative Words Similar to interlude
   
            
               
            
            
        
       
    
    
        10 definitions of interlude
           
        
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        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.
    
    
    
 
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        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.
    
    
    
 
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        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.
    
    
    
 
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        Any intervening period of time, space, etc.; a pause between phases of an activity.
    
    
    
 
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        an intervening period or episode
    
    
    
 
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        a brief show (music or dance etc) inserted between the sections of a longer performance
    
    
    
 
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        An intervening episode, feature, or period of time: "Kerensky has a place in history, of a brief interlude between despotisms”  ( William Safire). 
    
    
    
 
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        A short farcical entertainment performed between the acts of a medieval mystery or morality play.
    
    
    
 
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        A 16th-century genre of comedy derived from this.