FOREWORD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does foreword mean? 

• FOREWORD (noun)
  The noun FOREWORD has 1 sense:

1. a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book

  Familiarity information: FOREWORD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOREWORD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A short introductory essay preceding the text of a book

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

foreword; preface; prolusion

Hypernyms ("foreword" is a kind of...):

introduction (the first section of a communication)

Holonyms ("foreword" is a part of...):

text; textual matter (the words of something written)

 Context examples 

I had given my foreword and sacred promise to your father, Edric the Franklin, that at the age of twenty you should be sent out into the world to see for yourself how you liked the savor of it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And finally, the editor's foreword ended with: "We have not yet made up our minds entirely as to the merits of "Ephemera"; perhaps we shall never be able to do so. But we have read it often, wondering at the words and their arrangement, wondering where Mr. Brissenden got them, and how he could fasten them together."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)