• n.
    ⦿something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows
    lexical concept
  • drinks were the overture to dinner
  • training is a necessary preliminary to employment

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:overture
  2. enl:preliminary
  3. enl:prelude
wn:interlingual indexili:i75197

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • overturepreliminaryprelude
  • preliminary