prefatoryadjective
uk/ˈpref.ə.tər.i/us/ˈpref.ə.tɔːr.i/formalcoming at the beginning of a piece of writing or a speech:
After a few prefatory comments/remarks, she began her speech.
Synonym
introductory
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
First and firstly
- at first idiom
- begin
- debut
- first come, first served idiom
- firstly
- for starters idiom
- from the word go idiom
- in the first/second place idiom
- inaugural
- initial
- initially
- introduction
- originally
- place
- primary
- proto-
- starter
- to begin with idiom
- ur-
- word
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