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How to pronounce “prelude”
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Pronunciation guide for prelude
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of prelude with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Why All Dogs Are Good Dogs
as a kind of prelude to having a baby.
- Definition summary
- An introductory or preliminary performance or event.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce prelude
Why All Dogs Are Good Dogs
as a kind of prelude to having a baby.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “prelude”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- An introductory or preliminary performance or event.
- (music) 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. [from 1650s]
- (programming) A standard module or library of subroutines and functions to be imported, generally by default, into a program.
- (figurative) A forerunner to anything.
- [Verb]
- To introduce something, as a prelude.
- To play an introduction or prelude; to give a prefatory performance.
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