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overture

English

  1. 🔊 orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio
  2. 🔊 a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
    “she rejected his advances”
  3. 🔊 something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows
    “training is a necessary preliminary to employment”

Similar words

advance approach feeler preliminary prelude vorspiel advance approach asking price avant-propos bid breakthrough concert overture curtain raiser descant dramatic overture exordium feeler foreword front matter frontispiece innovation introduction invitation