interlude
Other forms: interludes; interluding; interluded
An interlude is a brief period of time that comes in the middle of something. You might enjoy a relaxing lemonade interlude in the middle of a tough day at your road-paving job.
Any block of time that comes as a break or a respite from an activity can be called an interlude, so you could talk about a quiet interlude after a noisy birthday party, or an interlude of peace after years of war. Interlude is often used to describe the pauses between acts of a play or during an intermission. In fact, the original meaning came from the Latin interludium, which means "between a play".
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an intervening period or episodetypes:entr'actethe interlude between two acts of a playtype of:
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a brief show (music or dance etc) inserted between the sections of a longer performancesynonyms: entr'acte, intermezzotype of:showthe act of publicly exhibiting or entertaining
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perform an interlude“The guitar player interluded with a beautiful improvisation”type of:performgive a performance (of something)
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Vocabulary lists containing interlude
In this comedy, two Athenian couples and a troupe of actors become unwitting pawns in a squabble between a fairy king and queen.
In January of 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlined the basic freedoms that, in his view, America represented. Almost a year before the attack on Pearl Harbor, FDR warned of the dangers from dictatorships and of the need for America to prepare to defend itself.