1. A minor match preceding the main event
   - preliminary 
2. An examination taken by graduate students to determine their fitness to continue
   - preliminary examination, preliminary exam

Derived forms: prelims

Type of: athletic competition, athletic contest, athletics, exam, examination, test

Encyclopedia: Prelim

• Suriname River
• Surinamese monetary unit
• surlily
• surliness
• surly
• surmisable
• surmisal
• surmise
• Surmontil
• surmount
• surmountable
• surmounted
• surmounter
• surmullet
• surname
• Surnia
• Surnia ulula
• surpass
• surpassable
• surpassing
• surpassingly
• surplice
• surpliced
• surplus
• surplusage