Prelude

Definition: Prelude

Prelude

Noun

1. Something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows; "training is a necessary preliminary to employment"; "drinks were the overture to dinner".

2. Music that precedes a fugue or introduces an act in an opera.

Verb

1. Serve as a prelude to.

2. Play as a prelude, of musical pieces.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "prelude" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Prelude

Precedence

Place before; prefix; premise, prelude, preface.

Precursor

Prelude, preamble, preface, prologue, foreword, avant-propos, protasis, proemium, prolusion, proem, prolepsis, prolegomena, prefix, introduction; heading, frontispiece, groundwork; preparation; overture, exordium, symphony; premises.

Crosswords: Prelude

Dutch (overture, prelude).

If a prelude is necessary, the news must be bad. (Washington Square; writing credit: Carol Doyle)

Prelude (1968)

Rachmaninov's Prelude (1932)

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

Books

• Balkan Wars, 1912-1913 : Prelude to the First World War (Warfare and History) (reference)

• X/1999 Prelude (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Charlotte Church: Prelude - The Best of Charlotte Church (reference)

• Dragonball Z, Vol. 32 - Trunks: Prelude to Terror (reference)

• A Prelude to a Kiss (reference)

• Why We Fight - Prelude to War: World at the Brink (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Sonata Da Camera / Rhapsodies / Prelude (reference)

• Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune/Images for orchestra/Printemps (reference)

• Debussy: Snowflakes Are Dancing, Prelude, etc / Tomita [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

• Beethoven At Bedtime; A Gentle Prelude To Sleep (reference)

• Bach: Toccata & Fugue; Passacaglia & Fugue; Pastorale; Prelude & Fugue (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

The prelude. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

The Communists turn their attention chiefly to Germany, because that country is on the eve of a bourgeois revolution that is bound to be carried out under more advanced conditions of European civilisation, and with a much more developed proletariat, than that of England was in the seventeenth, and of France in the eighteenth century, and because the bourgeois revolution in Germany will be but the prelude to an immediately following proletarian revolution. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He knew that the tale was a prelude and his mind waited for the sequel.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The Centers' multidisciplinary research environment will allow scientists to take advantage of new discoveries in the basic and technological sciences, which is the necessary prelude to clinical advances. (references)

Economic History

Ireland

The third operator, Meteor, finally launched its service in March 2001. GSM technology dominates the mobile sector and both main operators launched wireless application protocol (WAP) services [50,000 subscribers] in 2000 as a prelude to the roll-out of GPRS technology in late 2001. Eircom and BT Esat dominate the ISP sector having acquired the major independent ISP operators. (references)

Ireland

GSM technology dominates the mobile sector and the two main operators launched wireless application protocol (WAP) services [50,000 subscribers] in 2000 as a prelude to the roll-out of GPRS technology in 2001. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

In 2000 and during the year, foreign governments developed initiatives to facilitate reconciliation between the warring parties and proposed confidence building measures as a prelude to direct peace negotiations. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "prelude": chorale prelude. Additional references.

Albanian

prelud, prathënie, shërbej si prelud, shënon fillimin, hyrje (access, accession, adit, aisle, barrier, door, entrance, entry, front door, gate, gateway, hall, hallway, incoming, induction, inflow, inflowing, ingoing, ingress, inlet, input, intake, intromission, lead in, opening, porch, portal, preamble, preface, proem, prolegomena, prologue, throat). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاتحة موسيقية, ‏مقدمة موسيقية (prologue), ‏مقدمة (advance guard, fore, foreword, headlong, introduction, preamble, preface, premise, proem, vanguard), ‏تمرن (exercise, practise, warm up), ‏عزف مقدمة موسيقية, ‏جرب صوته, ‏إستهل بمقدمة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

увод (exordium, introduction, lead up, preamble, preliminary, prelusion, prodrome, proem, prolegomena, prolusion), свиря прелюдия, служа като увод към, въвеждам (bring, bring in, establish, herald, import, initiate, institute, introduce, naturalize, pioneer, premise, prologue, put in, set up, show, take in, usher in), въведение (introduction, prodrome), встъпление (entry, exordium, introduction, lead in, preamble, preliminary, prelusion, proem), загатвам за (connotate, connote, indicate, purport, shadow), прелюдия (prelusion, proem, prolusion), подготвям (equip, fit, get up, make ready, precede, prepare, string up, tee up, train, tutor, work up), подготовка (equipment, lead up, preparation, preparative, run up, schooling, set out, training). (various references)

Chinese 

前奏. (various references)

Czech

preludovat, předehra (overture), hrát předehru, být předehrou, úvod (guide, introduction, opening, outset, preface, preliminary). (various references)

Dutch

prelude (overture), voorspel (overture). (various references)

Esperanto

preludo (overture). (various references)

Farsi 

پیش درامد (Overture, Prologue), مقدمه (Antecedent, Introduction, Preface, Prolegomenon, Prologue, Snap, Start), قسمت مقدماتی . (various references)

Finnish

alkusoitto (overture). (various references)

French

préluder, prélude. (various references)

German

vorspiel (audition, foreplay, overture, performance, preliminary, preliminary game, prolog, prologue), Präludium (foreplay, overture). (various references)

Greek 

προηγούμαι (forego, go before, precede), προαγγέλω (forebode), προανάκρουσμα, προανακρούω, εισάγω (admit, enter, import, induct, initiate, inject, insert, institute, introduce, usher, usher in), εισαγωγή (admission to, import, importation, induction, initiation, input, insertion, intake, introduction, overture, preamble, prelusion, proem). (various references)

Hebrew 

לאק�"ם, אק�"מ�" (introduction, preface), �"בר פתיח�" (foreword, preamble). (various references)

Hungarian

bevezetés (exordium, implement, induction, initiation, installation, introduction, preamble, preface), előjáték (foreplay, prologue). (various references)

Indonesian

membuka (disclose, open, take down, unfasten, unfold, untie). (various references)

Italian

preludio (foreplay, proem). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

序曲 (overture), プレヤデス星団 (PD, Pleiades cluster, prerelease, probe, professional, program, program analyzer, program director, programmer, programming, proxy), 前奏曲 (overture), 前奏 (overture). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぜ�"そうきょく (overture), ぜ�"そう (gargle, muzzle loading, overture, rinse mouth, rock formation, Zen priest), プレリュード , じょきょく (overture). (various references)

Korean 

서곡. (various references)

Manx

roie-immeeaght (predecessor), roie-chloie, cheet roish (come along, come before, forestall, outflank, waylay). (various references)

Pig Latin

eludepray

Portuguese

proêmio (proem), princípio (beginning, commencement, first, foundation, fount, fundamental, origin, outset, prime, principle, start, sustenance, tenet, threshold), pressagiar (augur, bespeak, betoken, bode, forebode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, foretold, omen, portend, prognosticate, prophesy, threaten), prelúdio (flourish), prólogo (foreword, preliminary, prologue), servir como prelúdio a, introduzir (adhibit, immigrate, induct, initiate, inject, insert, insinuate, introduce, intrude, lead off, let in, marshal, obtrude, put in, thrust), introdução (approach, foreword, insertion, intromission, opening, preamble, preface), deixar prever, ceder (break, bring to one's knees, cede, convey, demise, desist, dispose of, fold, give in, give up, give way, go, hand over, humor, humour, indulge, knuckle under, part with, pull off, relinquish, resign, sag, sell, sink, spare, submit, succumb, to yield, transfer, truckle, vail, vend, weaken, yield). (various references)

Romanian

preludiu, preluda, uverturã (introduction, overture), introducere (foreword, insertion, interpolation, intro, introduction, intromission, preface, salutation), fi preludiul, executa preludiul, însoţi cu un preludiu, începe sã cânte (break into song). (various references)

Russian 

вступление (accedence, accession, entrance, entry, exordium, ingoing, lead in, overture, preamble). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

preludijum, predigra (prolusion), uvod (exordium, introduction, preamble, preface, proem), uvesti preludijumom, načiniti uvod (preamble). (various references)

Spanish

preludio. (various references)

Swedish

förspel (foreplay, prolusion). (various references)

Turkish

prelüd çalmak, prelüd, giriş yapmak (check in, enter, make one's entrance, preface, prologuize), giriş müziği (entrée, overture, preparation), giriş (access, adit, admission, admittance, ante, checkin, door, doorway, entrée, entrance, entry, exordium, induction, inflow, influx, ingress, inlet, input, intake, introduction, lead in, pass, port, preamble, proem, vestibule), başlangıç yapmak, başlangıç (approach, beginning, big bang, commencement, commencing, cradle, dawn, departure, doorway, early, elementary, exordium, first, go off, inception, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, infancy, introduction, lead off, morning, off, onset, origin, outset, preamble, preliminary, prime, proem, prolog, prologue, push off, setout, start, starting, take off, toe-hold). (various references)

Ukrainian

вступ (accedence, accession, admission, entry, exordium, foreword, induction, introduction, opening, overture, prelusion, prodrome), бути вступом, прелюдія (overture), починати (begin, break, commence, embark, enter into, enter on, enter upon, initiate, institute, launch, lead off, open, quicken, set off, start, strike up, tee off, tee up, undertake). (various references)

Vietnamese 

việc mở đầu, sự kiện mở đầu (prologue), m� n giáo đầu, cái mở đầu, buổi diễn mở đầu. (various references)

prooimion. (various references)

anteludium, prolusio. (various references)

preludium. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "prelude": preluded, preluder, preluders, preludes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Prelude" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: berluddy, Brelade, Parellada, pelude, Pertelote, praeludia, prclude, Preaud, prelod, preludial, Preludio, Premuda, Prilosec, prolude, pseude, relude. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dueler, eluder, pedler, perdue, pureed, purled, repled.

-2 letters: drupe, duper, duple, elder, elude, leper, lured, perdu, preed, prude, puled, puler, puree, repel, ruled, rupee.

-3 letters: deep, deer, dele, dere, dree, duel, dupe, dure, leer, leud, lude, lure, peed, peel, peer, pele, pled, pree, pule, pure, purl, rede, reed, reel, rude, rued, rule.

-4 letters: dee.

+1 letter: drupelet, duplexer, preclude, preluded, preluder, preludes, repulsed.

+2 letters: drupelets, duplexers, empurpled, pleasured, plundered, plunderer, precluded, precludes, prefeudal, preluders, recoupled, replumbed, replunged, reputedly.

+3 letters: kerplunked, perdurable, plunderers, presumedly, pulverised, pulverized, resculpted, resupplied, sepulchred, spluttered, supermodel, unexplored.

+4 letters: blueprinted, displeasure, loudspeaker, operculated, persuadable, preschedule, reduplicate, repopulated, republished, sepulchered, supercoiled, supercooled, superdeluxe, supermodels, underlapped, underplayed, upgradeable, upholstered.

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