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| Part of Speech: |
noun |
| Definition: |
something new; something that begins |
| Synonyms: |
addition, admittance,
awakening, baptism, basic principles, basic text,
beginning,
commencement,
debut, essentials,
establishment, exordium, first acquaintance, first taste, foreword, hornbook, inauguration,
inception,
induction,
influx, ingress,
initiation, insertion,
installation,
institution, interpolation, intro,
launch,
lead, lead-in,
opening, opening remarks,
overture, pioneering, preamble,
preface, preliminaries,
prelude,
presentation, primer, proem, prolegomenon,
prologue,
survey
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| Antonyms: |
conclusion, end, ending, finish
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