Definitions for prologue

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prologue pro·logue

Spelling: [proh-lawg, -log]

IPA: /ˈproʊ lɔg, -lɒg/

Prologue is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 195 anagrams from letters in prologue (egloopru).

Definitions for prologue

noun

1. a preliminary discourse; a preface or introductory part of a discourse, poem, or novel.
2. an introductory speech, often in verse, calling attention to the theme of a play.
3. the actor or actress who delivers this.
4. an introductory scene, preceding the first act of a play, opera, etc.
5. any introductory proceeding, event, etc.:

verb (used with object)

1. to introduce with or as if with a prologue.

Origin of prologue

1250-1300; Middle English prologe, prologue (Old French prologue) Latin prōlogus Greek prólogos. See pro-², -logue

Examples for prologue

These moves are positive, but if past is prologue, any real change could take years to enact.

But in a nation that has existed for more than 5,000 years, the past is more than a prologue.

The prologue is printed in full by Malone, Variorum, iii, 79.

A few words of explanation are necessary by way of prologue.

Here is a scene from it, the first after the prologue, which would have been spoken by Odysseus.

“The past is prologue,” says a Democratic House leadership aide.

He had the past for his prologue, and the future for his epilogue.

Here is a title that, in its prologue, tasks players with fighting a horde of angels on top of a moving jet.

It also features a scene that is shockingly reminiscent of the prologue in The Dark Knight Rises.

THE preface to a book serves the double purpose of prologue and epilogue.