prelude

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) An introductory or preliminary performance or event.
 * 2)  A short, free-form piece of music, originally one serving as an introduction to a longer and more complex piece; later, starting with the Romantic period, generally a stand-alone piece.
 * 3)  A standard module or library of subroutines and functions to be imported, generally by default, into a program.
 * 4)  A forerunner to anything.
 * 1)  A standard module or library of subroutines and functions to be imported, generally by default, into a program.
 * 2)  A forerunner to anything.
 * 1)  A forerunner to anything.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: preludi
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: προοίμιον
 * Italian:
 * Latin: praelūsiō
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uyghur: مۇقەددىمە


 * Belarusian: прэлю́дыя
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: preludi
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: předehra
 * Esperanto: preludo
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: プレリュード
 * Latin: praelūdium
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: preludium
 * Nynorsk: preludium
 * Plautdietsch: Väaspell
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: khúc dạo dầu, dạo đầu

Verb

 * 1) To introduce something, as a prelude.
 * 2) To play an introduction or prelude; to give a prefatory performance.