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explanatory matter
Main Entry:
front matter
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Part of Speech:
noun
Definition:
preliminary pages
Synonyms:
explanatory matter
,
introduction
,
preface
, preliminaries,
preliminary
, prelims
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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