Prefacenoun
The beginning or introductory portion that comes before the main text of a document or book.
Prefacenoun
An introduction, or series of preliminary remarks.
Prefacenoun
(Roman Catholic) The prelude or introduction to the canon of the Mass.
Prefaceverb
(transitive) To introduce or make a comment before (the main point).
Prefaceverb
(transitive) To give a preface to.
Prefacenoun
Something spoken as introductory to a discourse, or written as introductory to a book or essay; a proem; an introduction, or series of preliminary remarks.
Prefacenoun
The prelude or introduction to the canon of the Mass.
Prefaceverb
To introduce by a preface; to give a preface to; as, to preface a book discourse.
Prefaceverb
To make a preface.
Prefacenoun
a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book
Prefaceverb
furnish with a preface or introduction;
Preface
A preface () or proem () is an introduction to a book or other literary work written by the work's author. An introductory essay written by a different person is a foreword and precedes an author's preface.
Antonymnoun
(semantics) A word which has the opposite meaning of another word.
Antonymnoun
A word that describes one end of a scale, while its opposite describes the other end, such as large versus small; a gradable antonym.
Antonymnoun
A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; - used as a correlative of synonym.
Antonymnoun
two words that express opposing concepts;