preamble
English
Alternative forms
- præamble (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English preamble, from Old French preambule (French préambule), from Medieval Latin praeambulum, from praeambulō (“I walk before”).
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈpɹiːˌambəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈpɹiˌæmbəl/
Noun
preamble (plural preambles)
- A short preliminary statement or remark, especially an explanatory introduction to a formal document or statute.
- Synonyms: foreword, preface, prologue; see also Thesaurus:foreword
- Antonyms: afterword, conclusion, epilogue, last word, postamble; see also Thesaurus:afterword
- (computing, networking) A syncword.
Translations
short statement or remark, especially an explanatory introduction to a formal document or statute
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Verb
preamble (third-person singular simple present preambles, present participle preambling, simple past and past participle preambled)
- (intransitive) To speak or write a preamble; to provide a preliminary statement or set of remarks.
- 1867, Simeon Thayer, Edwin Martin Stone, The Invasion of Canada in 1775: Including the Journal of Captain Simeon Chaper, pages 312-313:
- But these things being beside my main design, I will desist from preambling and come to the materials I have collected towards a history of the Baptists in this province.
- 1982, Frank Davey, Pomestaysyun, page 20:
- Once I was young and had so much more orientation and could talk with nervous intelligence about everything and with clarity and without as much literary preambling as this; in other words this is the story of an unself-confident man, at the same time of an egomaniac.
- 2016, Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, →ISBN, page 473:
- So, what say we skip the preambling. Is it women? Money? Writer's block?
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