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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | introduction |
| Synonyms: | beginning, exordium, explanation, foreword, overture, preamble, preliminary, prelude, prelusion, proem, prolegomenon, prologue |
| Notes: | the foreword is written by someone other than the author; the preface is written by the author or editor preface and foreword were once considered the same (Latin praefari 'speak before,' Germanic/Anglo-Saxon vorwort 'preface') but now preface is written by the author and foreword by someone else |
| Antonyms: | appendix, conclusion, ending, epilogue, finish |
| Main Entry: | premiere |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | original production |
| Synonyms: | beginning, debut, first night, first performance, first showing, opening, opening night |
| Notes: | a debut is a first public appearance; a premiere is a first performance, showing, or broadcast |
| Antonyms: | closing |
| Main Entry: | primary/prime |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | earliest |
| Synonyms: | aboriginal, beginning, direct, first, firsthand, immediate, initial, original, pioneer, primal, primeval, primitive, primordial, pristine |
| Antonyms: | final, latest |
| Main Entry: | primary/prime |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | basic, fundamental |
| Synonyms: | basal, beginning, bottom, central, elemental, elementary, essential, first, foundational, introductory, meat-and-potatoes, original, primitive, principal, radical, rudimentary, simple, three R's, ultimate, underivative, underived, underlying |
| Antonyms: | auxiliary, secondary, supplemental |
| Main Entry: | prologue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | preface |
| Synonyms: | beginning, exordium, explanation, foreword, introduction, opening, overture, preamble, prelude, proem, prolegomenon |
| Main Entry: | rudimentary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | basic, fundamental |
| Synonyms: | abecedarian, basal, beginning, early, elemental, elementary, embryonic, immature, initial, introductory, larval, nuts-and-bolts, primary, primitive, simple, simplest, uncompleted, undeveloped, vestigial |
| Antonyms: | additional, advanced, derivative, developed, extra, nonessential |
| Main Entry: | spring |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | origin |
| Synonyms: | beginning, cause, consideration, fount, fountain, fountainhead, impetus, motive, root, source, stimulus, well, wellspring, whence |
| Antonyms: | end, result |
| Main Entry: | infancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | babyhood |
| Synonyms: | beginning, childhood, immaturity, inception, incunabulum, minority, nonage, outset, pupilage, start |
| Antonyms: | old age |
| Main Entry: | establishing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the act of founding |
| Synonyms: | beginning, building, chartering, constituting, endowing, fixing, founding, implementing, inaugurating, initiating, instituting, organizing, originating, regulating, setting up, settling, stabilizing, starting, subsidizing |
| Antonyms: | dissolving, ending, tearing down |
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