prelude
Meaning of prelude
noun
- an action or event serving as an introduction to something more important.
a ceasefire had been agreed as a prelude to full peace negotiations
- an introductory piece of music, most commonly an orchestral opening to an act of an opera, the first movement of a suite, or a piece preceding a fugue.
- serve as a prelude or introduction to.
the bombardment preluded an all-out final attack
mid 16th century: from French prélude, from medieval Latin praeludium, from Latin praeludere ‘play beforehand’, from prae ‘before’ + ludere ‘to play’.
Information about prelude
- The plural form of prelude is: preludes.
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Hyphenation of prelude
pre-lude
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- prelude is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
prelude synonyms
Meaning preliminary:
Meaning a beginning; an initial part:
Meaning the action or process of preparing or being prepared for use or consideration:
Meaning a thing preliminary to something else, especially an explanatory section at the beginning of a book, report, or speech:
Meaning the point in time or space at which something has its origin; the beginning:
Meaning the point in time or space at which something begins:
Meaning a person or thing that comes before another of the same kind; a forerunner:
Meaning a sign or warning of something to come:
Meaning a person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another:
Meaning a person or thing viewed as a sign that something is about to happen:
Meaning a device for opening something, especially a container:
Meaning the beginning of something:
Meaning a preliminary action or event; a prelude:
Meaning an organ solo played before, during, or after a church service:
Meaning a short prelude or interlude for organ:
Words that rhyme with prelude
lude, Quaalude, palude, quaalude, ablude, blude, Baraclude, aquiclude, circumclude, coinclude, conclude, disocclude, exclude, foreconclude, include, interclude, obclude, occlude, preclude, preconclude, preexclude, preinclude, pseudoconclude, reclude, reconclude, reinclude, seclude, antelude, delude, elude, predelude, undelude, hastilude, allude, collude, disillude, illude, preallude, precollude, reallude, interlude, postlude
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