intermezzo

1. 1.

   a short movement coming between the major sections of a symphony

   Broadermovement
2. 2.

   a short piece of instrumental music composed for performance between acts of a drama or opera

   Broadermusical composition
3. 3.

   a brief show (music or dance etc) inserted between the sections of a longer performance

   Synonymsinterludeentr'acte

   Broadershow

   music

Other forms of intermezzo

plural

intermezzi

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about intermezzo

What does intermezzo mean?

intermezzo means "a short movement coming between the major sections of a symphony". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in intermezzo?

intermezzo has 4 syllables: in-ter-mez-zo. The stress falls on "ter".

What is another word for intermezzo?

Close synonyms include interlude, entr'acte. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is intermezzo a common word?

intermezzo is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.