prelude

[US]/ˈpreljuːd/
[UK]/ˈpreljuːd/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. the opening act or introduction, a short preliminary piece of writing.

Phrases & Collocations

musical prelude

prelude to disaster

prelude to war

prelude to success

Example Sentences

a prelude to disaster.

prelude a talk with a joke

Prelude in G Major.

a prelude to a piece of great work

The discussions were a prelude to the treaty.

The prelude to the musical composition is very long.

education cannot simplya prelude to a career.

The prelude was as iridescent as a prism in a morning room.

Error is often the precursor of what is correct,but conceit is the prelude to a fall.

the bombardment preluded an all-out final attack.

He preluded with some cliche.

to include prelude,loud song and coda

This very recklessness makes me feel that these costly operations may be only the prelude to far larger events which impend on land.

In his autobiographical poem ‘The Prelude’, Wordsworth describes his boyhood in the Lakes.

Additionally, this song also includes the rhythms of Mazurka, Nocturnes, and Barcarole.As for tempo rubato, the prelude and postlude are both very dramatized.

It undrew the prelude of transgenic breeding that the company of Monsanto Company obtained the first transgenic tobacco plant which had resistance to tobacco virus by transgenic technique in 1986.

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