preface
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book
Types & categories
- introduction hypernym
Parts & wholes
- text part holonym
Related & opposite
- preface derivation
- prefatorial derivation
Sense 2 verb
furnish with a preface or introduction
She always precedes her lectures with a joke
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- prolusion derivation
- prefatorial derivation
- introductory derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | preface |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | prefatorial |
| 1 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | text |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | introduction |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | prolusion |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | prefatorial |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | introductory |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | state |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | preamble |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | prologize |