forewordnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈfɔː.wɜːd/us/ˈfɔːr.wɝːd/a short piece of writing at the beginning of a book, sometimes praise by a famous person or someone who is not the writer
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Books & parts of books
- addendum
- artwork
- bibliography
- binder
- binding
- blurb
- chapter
- errata
- erratum
- extract
- flyleaf
- folio
- frontispiece
- library
- margin
- monograph
- preface
- prologue
- serial
- table
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Examples from literature
- In a foreword to the readers of the New Dawn, however, a faintly ominous note was sounded.
- In all that has been written in this foreword the design has been merely to sketch, to outline some of the larger achievements of the United States Navy in this war.
- My main object in this foreword is to commend to the public who take an interest in this grave problem a discussion of it, which is alike timely and thorough and reverent.
- Why might I not put a head and tail to this—a foreword and a few words in conclusion—and make it meet the purpose and serve the occasion?