'Interlude' definitions:
Definition of 'interlude'
(from WordNet)
noun
An intervening period or episode
noun
A brief show (music or dance etc) inserted between the sections of a longer performance [syn: interlude, intermezzo, entr'acte]
verb
Perform an interlude; "The guitar player interluded with a beautiful improvisation"
Definition of 'Interlude'
From: GCIDE
- Interlude \In`ter*lude\, n. [OE. enterlude, LL. interludium; LL. inter between + ludus play, fr. ludere to play: cf. F. interlude. See Ludicrous.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes When monarch reason sleeps. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Hence: Any intervening period of time, space, etc.; a pause between phases of an activity. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'interlude'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abeyance,
- act,
- afterpiece,
- anacrusis,
- bass passage,
- bit,
- bourdon,
- break,
- breath,
- breather,
- breathing place,
- breathing space,
- breathing spell,
- breathing time,
- bridge,
- burden,
- cadence,
- caesura,
- cease-fire,
- chaser,
- chorus,
- cigarette break,
- cocktail hour,
- coda,
- coffee break,
- curtain,
- curtain call,
- curtain raiser,
- day off,
- development,
- divertimento,
- divertissement,
- division,
- downtime,
- drop,
- enforced respite,
- epilogue,
- episode,
- exode,
- exodus,
- exposition,
- expository scene,
- figure,
- finale,
- folderol,
- gap,
- half time,
- half-time intermission,
- halt,
- happy hour,
- harmonic close,
- hesitation,
- hiatus,
- hoke act,
- holiday,
- idyll,
- interim,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interregnum,
- interruption,
- interval,
- introduction,
- introductory phrase,
- lacuna,
- lapse,
- layoff,
- letup,
- lull,
- meantime,
- meanwhile,
- measure,
- movement,
- musical phrase,
- musical sentence,
- number,
- off-time,
- ornament,
- parenthesis,
- part,
- passage,
- pause,
- period,
- phrase,
- plateau,
- point of repose,
- prologue,
- quiet spell,
- recess,
- refrain,
- relief,
- remission,
- resolution,
- respite,
- response,
- rest,
- resting point,
- ritornello,
- routine,
- scene,
- section,
- shtick,
- sketch,
- skit,
- song and dance,
- spell,
- stand-down,
- stand-up comedy act,
- stanza,
- statement,
- stay,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- strain,
- striptease,
- surcease,
- suspension,
- tailpiece,
- tea break,
- time off,
- time out,
- truce,
- turn,
- tutti,
- tutti passage,
- vacation,
- variation,
- verse,
- wait