Word Meanings - PROLOGUE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The preface or introduction to a discourse, poem, or performance; as, the prologue of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales;" esp., a discourse or poem spoken before a dramatic performance 2. One who delivers a prologue. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROLOGUE)

• Preface
• Introduction
• proem
• prelude
• prologue
• preamble
• premiss

Related words: (words related to PROLOGUE)

• PRELUDE
  An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with
• PRELUDER
  One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude. Mason.
• PROEMBRYO
  The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo. The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.
• PROEMIAL
  Introductory; prefatory; preliminary. Hammond.
• PREFACE
  The prelude or introduction to the canon of the Mass. Addis & Arnold. Proper preface , a portion of the communion service, preceding the prayer of consecration, appointed for certain seasons. Syn. -- Introduction; preliminary; preamble; proem;
• PROEM
  Preface; introduction; preliminary observations; prelude. Thus much may serve by way of proem. Swift.
• PROEMPTOSIS
  The addition of a day to the lunar calendar. See Metemptosis.
• PROLOGUE
  1. The preface or introduction to a discourse, poem, or performance; as, the prologue of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales;" esp., a discourse or poem spoken before a dramatic performance 2. One who delivers a prologue. Shak.
• PREFACER
  The writer of a preface.
• INTRODUCTION
  1. The act of introducing, or bringing to notice. 2. The act of formally making persons known to each other; a presentation or making known of one person to another by name; as, the introduction of one stranger to another. 3. That part of a book
• PREMISS
  Premise. Whately. I. Watts
• PREAMBLE
  A introductory portion; an introduction or preface, as to a book, document, etc.; specifically, the introductory part of a statute, which states the reasons and intent of the law. (more info) before, fr. praeambulare to walk before; prae before