prelude

Meaning of prelude

noun
  1. an action or event serving as an introduction to something more important.
    a ceasefire had been agreed as a prelude to full peace negotiations
  2. 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.
verb
  1. 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:

preliminary, overture

Meaning a beginning; an initial part:

opening

Meaning the action or process of preparing or being prepared for use or consideration:

preparation

Meaning a thing preliminary to something else, especially an explanatory section at the beginning of a book, report, or speech:

introduction

Meaning the point in time or space at which something has its origin; the beginning:

start

Meaning the point in time or space at which something begins:

beginning

Meaning a person or thing that comes before another of the same kind; a forerunner:

precursor

Meaning a sign or warning of something to come:

forerunner

Meaning a person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another:

harbinger

Meaning a person or thing viewed as a sign that something is about to happen:

herald

Meaning a device for opening something, especially a container:

opener

Meaning the beginning of something:

commencement

Meaning a preliminary action or event; a prelude:

prolusion

Meaning an organ solo played before, during, or after a church service:

voluntary

Meaning a short prelude or interlude for organ:

verset

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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