Foreword

Noun

 * 1) An introductory section preceding the main text of a book or other document; a preface or introduction.

Thesaurus
acknowledgments, anteriority, avant-propos, back, back matter, bastard title, 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, front, front elevation, front man, front matter, front page, front view, frontage, frontal, frontier, frontispiece, half-title page, head, heading, imprint, index, innovation, inscription, introduction, lap, leaf, leap, makeup, obverse, overture, page, postulate, preamble, preface, prefix, prefixture, preliminaries, preliminary, prelude, premise, presupposition, priority, proem, prolegomena, prolegomenon, prolepsis, prologue, proscenium, protasis, recto, reverso, running title, signature, subtitle, table of contents, tail, text, title, title page, trim size, type page, verse, verso, voluntary, window dressing

Etymology
Morphologically, a calque of Vorwort:, itself a calque of  praefatio:.

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: forward
 * Homophones: forward
 * Homophones: forward
 * Homophones: forward

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: avant-propos
 * German:


 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Slovak: predslov
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: förord