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| Main Entry: |
interlude
 [in-ter-lood] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pause, break |
| Synonyms: | breathing space, delay, episode, halt, hiatus, idyll, interim, intermission, interregnum, interruption, interval, lull, meantime, meanwhile, parenthesis, recess, respite, rest, spell, stop, stoppage, wait |
| Notes: | an interval is a gap in time or space, whereas an interlude (literally 'between games') generally functions to fill such a gap, thus occupy an interval |
| Antonyms: | continuation |
| Main Entry: | romance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adventure, flight of fancy |
| Synonyms: | charm, color, excitement, exoticness, fairy tale, fancy, fantasy, fascination, glamour, hazard, idealization, idyll, mystery, nostalgia, risk, sentiment, venture |
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Example Sentences
- But the appearance of a pastoral idyll conceals a poverty trap.
- Its vision of people in thrall to religious ritual and living at the mercy of nature may be poetic, but it is no idyll.
- Until then, the movie has pretended to be a romantic idyll.
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