intermission

English

Etymology

From Latin intermissiō, from intermittō.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪntɚˈmɪʃən/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪʃən

Noun

intermission (plural intermissions)

1. A break, especially between two performances or sessions, such as at a concert, play, seminar, or religious assembly.

   We ordered some drinks for the intermission.

   • 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 265:

     The line turns a sharp right-angle to the north to circumvent the town, and then plunges straight into the 1 in 50, which lasts for nearly 20 miles with few intermissions, and some pitches of 1 in 40.

Derived terms

• intermissionless

Related terms

• intermit
• intermittent

Translations

break between performances or sessions

• Arabic: فاصِل (fāṣil)
• Armenian: դադար (hy) (dadar)
• Bulgarian: пауза (bg) f (pauza)
• Catalan: intermedi m
• Czech: přestávka (cs) f
• Esperanto: interakto
• Finnish: väliaika (fi)
• French: intermède (fr) m, interlude (fr) m, entracte (fr) m
• German: Unterbrechung (de) f, Pause (de) f
• Hindi: मध्यांतर m (madhyāntar), अंतराल (hi) m (antrāl)
• Hungarian: szünet (hu)
• Icelandic: hlé (is) n, hvíld (is) f, aflát n
• Italian: intervallo (it) m, pausa (it) f, intermezzo (it) m, intermedio (it) m
• Latin: intermissiō f, intercapedō f, dīlūdium n
• Malayalam: ഇടവേള (ml) (iṭavēḷa)
• Mirandese: anterbalo m
• Polish: antrakt (pl) m
• Portuguese: intervalo (pt) m, intermissão f
• Russian: антра́кт (ru) m (antrákt), переры́в (ru) m (pererýv), па́уза (ru) f (páuza), переме́на (ru) f (pereména) (as in school)
• Scottish Gaelic: eadar-ùine f, eadar-àm m
• Spanish: intermisión (es) f, intermedio (es) m
• Swedish: paus (sv)
• Tagalog: entreakto
• Turkish: ara (tr) sg

Anagrams

• misinsertion, nitrosimines