PROLEGOMENON

  

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PROLEGOMENON

Definition: PROLEGOMENON

PROLEGOMENON

Noun

1. A preliminary remark or observation; an introductory discourse prefixed to a book or treatise.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Prolegomenon \Prol`e*gom"e*non\, noun; plural Prolegomena. New Latin, from the Greek expression, properly neut. pass. p. pr. of to say beforehand; before to say.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: PROLEGOMENON

English words defined with "PROLEGOMENON": Prolegomena, Prolegomenary. (references)

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Commercial Usage: PROLEGOMENON

DomainTitle

Books

  • How to Build a Person: A Prolegomenon (reference)

  • Human Freedom and the Logic of Evil: Prolegomenon to a Christian Theology of Evil (Library of Philosophy and Religion) (reference)

  • Incompleteness, Nonlocality and Realism: A Prolegomenon to the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics (reference)

  • Prolegomenon Sylloge Rhetores Graeci (Bibliotheca Teubneriana) (reference)

  • Rome and the Arabs: A Prolegomenon to the Study of Byzantium and the Arabs (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: PROLEGOMENON

Language Translations for "PROLEGOMENON"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Farsi 

  

پیش گفتار (Preface, Prologue), مقدمه (Antecedent, Introduction, Preface, Prelude, Prologue, Snap, Start), مقدماتی (Elementary, First, Preliminary, Preparatory, Primary), کلمات مقدماتی . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

olegomenonpray

   

Russian 

  

предварительный рассуждение (prolegomena). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

prolegómeno. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

вступ у вивчення. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "PROLEGOMENON"

Words rhyming with "PROLEGOMENON" (pronounced 'Prol`e*gom"e*non'): Anon, Champignon, Chignon, guenon, Memnon, Noumenon, Olecranon, Paralipomenon, Parthenon, Perispomenon, Phaenomenon, Phenomenon, Phonorganon, Properispomenon. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PROLEGOMENON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-g-l-m-n-n-o-o-o-p-r"

-4 letters: gonopore, longeron, monopole, prenomen, prolonge.

-5 letters: erelong, gomerel, legroom, lorgnon, mongrel, monolog, nonpoor, oenomel, prenoon, prolong.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Translations: Modern
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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