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Synonyms for prologue

Grammar : Noun
Spell : proh-lawg, -log
Phonetic Transcription : ˈproʊ lɔg, -lɒg

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Définition of prologue

Origin :
  • early 14c., from Old French prologue (12c.) and directly from Latin prologus, from Greek prologos "preface to a play, speaker of a prologue," literally "a speech beforehand," from pro- "before" (see pro-) + logos "discourse, speech," from legein "to speak" (see lecture (n.)).
  • noun preface
Example sentences :
  • THE preface to a book serves the double purpose of prologue and epilogue.
  • Extract from : « A Hero of Our Time » by M. Y. Lermontov
  • He had the past for his prologue, and the future for his epilogue.
  • Extract from : « The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days » by Hall Caine
  • A few words of explanation are necessary by way of prologue.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion, Volume 1 » by John Charles Dent
  • The Prologue is printed in full by Malone, Variorum, iii, 79.
  • Extract from : « Shakespearean Playhouses » by Joseph Quincy Adams
  • Here is a scene from it, the first after the Prologue, which would have been spoken by Odysseus.
  • Extract from : « Helen Redeemed and Other Poems » by Maurice Hewlett
  • (recto) "Here begynneth the prologue of this present treatyse."
  • Extract from : « The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 » by Sebastian Brandt
  • Later they were addressed in the prologue, which became customary, and so they must have been present.
  • Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
  • He would do it, she knew, and from that prologue more would follow.
  • Extract from : « Country Neighbors » by Alice Brown
  • Ancona Tonio interrupts the overture in order to sing a prologue.
  • Extract from : « Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 27, 1893 » by Various
  • The prologue to our ancient dramas was ushered in by trumpets.
  • Extract from : « Microcosmography » by John Earle

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