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prologue
prologue /ˈprəʊ.lɒɡ/ aep /ˈproʊ.lɑːɡ/ noun
1 F0 [C] a part that comes at the beginning of a play, story, or long poem, often giving information about events that happened before the time when the play, story, or poem begins → COMPARE EPILOGUE(Cf. ↑epilogue)Thesaurus+: ↑Books and parts of books2 F0 [S] LITERARY a series of events that happen before the main event and are related to it: » INFORMAL A series of internal struggles was the prologue to full-scale civil war.Thesaurus+: ↑Before, after and already , ↑After and behind |