Preamble

Quick meaning: Preamble is a noun meaning A short preliminary statement or remark, especially an explanatory introduction to a formal document or statute.

Meaning

A short preliminary statement or remark, especially an explanatory introduction to a formal document or statute.

More Meanings

1. (computing, networking) A syncword.
2. A precursor.
3. (intransitive) To speak or write a preamble; to provide a preliminary statement or set of remarks.

Example Sentences

So, what say we skip the preambling. Is it women? Money? Writer's block?

But these things being beside my main design, I will desist from preambling and come to the materials I have collected towards a history of the Baptists in this province.

The consultation preamble explains: "The planned timetable will be introduced in 2025 once we have completed the necessary steps required to ensure that we have enough resources to do so.

Once I was young and had so much more orientation and could talk with nervous intelligence about everything and with clarity and without as much literary preambling as this; in other words this is the story of an unself-confident man, at the same time of an egomaniac.

Word Forms

• preambles
• preambling
• preambled

Synonyms for preamble

Depending on context, synonyms include foreword, preface, prologue, foretale, foretalk.

Antonyms for preamble

Common opposites include conclusion, epilogue, postamble, endsay.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include preface, foreword, proem, prelude, preambular, introductory.

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