PROLEGOMENON

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: prolegomena   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A preliminary discussion inserted at the beginning of a book or treatise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

introduction (the first section of a communication)

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