Associations to the word «Prologue»

Wiktionary

PROLOGUE, noun. A speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel.
PROLOGUE, noun. One who delivers a prologue.
PROLOGUE, noun. (computing) A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to execute a routine.
PROLOGUE, verb. To introduce with a formal preface, or prologue.

Dictionary definition

PROLOGUE, noun. An introduction to a play.

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