Associations to the word «Preamble»

Wiktionary

PREAMBLE, noun. A short preliminary statement or remark, especially an explanatory introduction to a formal document or statute.
PREAMBLE, noun. (computing) A syncword.

Dictionary definition

PREAMBLE, noun. A preliminary introduction to a statute or constitution (usually explaining its purpose).
PREAMBLE, verb. Make a preliminary introduction, usually to a formal document.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope