Associations to the word «Preface»
Noun
- Voltaire
- Contributor
- Shakespeare
- Pamphlet
- Bede
- Kant
- Catalogue
- Oration
- Speech
- Walpole
- Discourse
- Lettre
- Quixote
- Shelley
- Descartes
- Elegy
- Grimm
- Ballad
- Critique
- Chaucer
- Shaw
- Quote
- Content
- Authenticity
- Pop
- Anecdote
- Hawthorne
- Ode
- Abbreviation
- Allusion
- Collect
- Facsimile
- Addison
- Discussion
- Sultan
- Dictionary
- Fragmentary
- Marx
- Prose
- Wilde
- Ruskin
- Nietzsche
- Plutarch
- Letter
- Scripture
- Luther
- Monde
- Mather
- Virgil
- Lexicon
- Gilles
- Detailing
- Keats
- Coll
- Middleton
- Dickens
- Censure
- Revision
- Canon
- Dramatist
- Autobiography
- Liszt
- Libretto
- Conte
- Jerome
- Modernity
- Vols
- Folklore
- Account
- Summary
- Tragedy
- Piety
- Wessex
- Mayan
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
PREFACE, noun. The beginning or introductory portion that comes before the main text of a document or book.
PREFACE, noun. An introduction, or series of preliminary remarks.
PREFACE, noun. (Roman Catholic) The prelude or introduction to the canon of the Mass.
PREFACE, verb. (transitive) To introduce or make a comment before (the main point).
PREFACE, verb. (transitive) To give a preface to.
PREFACE, noun. The part of the liturgy that precedes the main part of the Eucharist
Dictionary definition
PREFACE, noun. A short introductory essay preceding the text of a book.
PREFACE, verb. Furnish with a preface or introduction; "She always precedes her lectures with a joke"; "He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution".
Wise words
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and
principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles
of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even
the interpretation and use of words involves a process of
free creation.