prelude
English
Alternative forms
- prælude (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle French prélude (“singing to test a musical instrument”), from Medieval Latin preludium, from Latin praelūdere.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
prelude (plural preludes)
- An introductory or preliminary performance or event.
- Synonym: preface
- (music) A short, free-form piece of music, originally one serving as an introduction to a longer and more complex piece; later, starting with the Romantic period, generally a stand-alone piece. [from 1650s]
- (computing) A standard module or library of subroutines and functions to be imported, generally by default, into a program.
- (figurative) A forerunner to anything.
Synonyms
Translations
introductory event
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short piece of music
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Verb
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- To introduce something, as a prelude.
- To play an introduction or prelude; to give a prefatory performance.
- Sir Walter Scott
- The musicians preluded on their instruments.
- Jeffrey
- We are preluding too largely, and must come at once to the point.
- Sir Walter Scott
References
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “prelude”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Italian
Verb
prelude
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