Prologue

Quick meaning: Prologue is a noun meaning (literature, rhetoric) A speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel.

Meaning

(literature, rhetoric) A speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel.

More Meanings

1. One who delivers a prologue.
2. (computing) A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to execute a routine.
3. (cycling) An individual time trial before a stage race, used to determine which rider wears the leader's jersey on the first stage.
4. (Eastern Orthodoxy) A liturgical book containing daily readings, including hagiography.
5. (literature, rhetoric) To introduce with a formal preface, or prologue.

Example Sentences

[…]harbindgers preceading ſtill the fates and prologue to the Omen comming on[…]

And hither am I come, / A Prologue arm’d, but not in confidence / Of Authors pen, or Actors voyce;

“H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what […] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […]”

Word Forms

• prologues
• prolog
• prologuing
• prologued

Synonyms for prologue

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

Antonyms for prologue

Common opposites include epilogue, epilog, conclusion, endsay, postamble.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include foreword, preface, prelude, overture, preamble, introduction.

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