Preface

Noun

 * 1) The beginning or introductory portion that comes before the main text of a document or book.
 * The book included a brief preface by a leading expert in the field.

Verb

 * 1)  To introduce or make a comment before the main point.
 * Let me preface this by saying that I don't know him that well.

Adjectives for Preface
hilarious; forcible; well-composed; epigrammatic.

Thesaurus
acknowledgments, anteriority, avant-propos, back, back matter, bastard title, begin, bibliography, bold front, brave face, brave front, breakthrough, catch line, catchword, colophon, contents, contents page, copyright page, dedication, display, endleaf, endpaper, endsheet, errata, exordium, facade, face, facet, facia, flyleaf, folio, fore, fore edge, forefront, foreground, forehand, foreland, forepart, forequarter, foreside, foreword, front, front elevation, front man, front matter, front page, front view, frontage, frontal, frontier, frontispiece, half-title page, head, heading, imprint, index, innovation, inscription, introduce, introduction, lap, lead, leaf, leap, makeup, obverse, open, overture, page, postulate, preamble, precede, prefix, prefixture, preliminaries, preliminary, prelude, premise, presupposition, priority, proem, prolegomena, prolegomenon, prolepsis, prologize, prologue, proscenium, protasis, recto, reverso, running title, signature, subtitle, table of contents, tail, text, title, title page, trim size, type page, usher, verse, verso, voluntary, window dressing

Alternative forms

 * præface

Etymology
1350–1400; prefas:, which is from  preface: (from which derives the modern  préface:), from  prefatia:, for classical  praefatio:, from praefor:, from prae-: + for:

Noun

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 * Polish: wstęp, przedmowa
 * Scottish Gaelic:
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 * Telugu: పీఠిక (peeThika)

Verb

 * French:

Related terms

 * prefatory