| Main Entry: | debut |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | first public appearance |
Synonyms: |
admission, appearance, beginning, bow, coming out, coming out party, entrance, entree, first step, graduating, graduation, inauguration, incoming, initiation, introduction, launching, opener, presentation |
| Notes: | a debut is a first public appearance; a premiere is a first performance, showing, or broadcast |
Antonyms: |
closing, finale |
| Main Entry: | appearance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coming into sight |
Synonyms: |
actualization, advent, appearing, arrival, coming, debut, display, emergence, entrance, exhibition, introduction, manifestation, materialization, presence, presentation, representation, rise, showing up, turning up, unveiling |
Antonyms: |
absence, departure, disappearance, leaving |
| Main Entry: | baptism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | church rite; initiation |
Synonyms: |
ablution, baptismal, christening, debut, dedication, dunking, immersion, introduction, launching, lustration, purgation, purge, purification, rite of passage, ritual, sanctification, sprinkling |
| Main Entry: | come out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make public |
Synonyms: |
appear, be announced, be brought out, be disclosed, be divulged, be exposed, be issued, be made known, be promulgated, be published, be released, be reported, be revealed, break*, debut, get out, leak*, out, transpire |
Antonyms: |
hide |
| Main Entry: | entrance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coming into a place; introduction |
Synonyms: |
access, accession, adit, admission, admittance, appearance, approach, arrival, baptism, beginning, commencement, debut, enlistment, enrollment, entry, entrée, immigration, import, importation, inception, incoming, ingoing, ingress, ingression, initiation, invasion, outset, passage, penetration, progress, start, trespass |
Antonyms: |
conclusion, departure, exit, leave |
| Main Entry: | entrée |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | admittance |
Synonyms: |
access, adit, admission, connection, contact, debut, door, entrance, entry, importation, in, incoming, induction, ingress, introduction, open arms, open door, way |
Antonyms: |
blackballing, rejection |
| Main Entry: | initiation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | start, introduction |
Synonyms: |
admission, baptism, beginning, commencement, debut, enrollment, entrance, inaugural, inauguration, inception, indoctrination, induction, installation, instatement, investiture, preliminaries |
Antonyms: |
close, conclusion, end, ending, finish, termination |
| Main Entry: | introduction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something new; something that begins |
Synonyms: |
addition, admittance, awakening, baptism, basic principles, basic text, beginning, commencement, debut, essentials, establishment, exordium, first acquaintance, first taste, foreword, hornbook, inauguration, inception, induction, influx, ingress, initiation, insertion, installation, institution, interpolation, intro, launch, lead, lead-in, opening, opening remarks, overture, pioneering, preamble, preface, preliminaries, prelude, presentation, primer, proem, prolegomenon, prologue, survey |
Antonyms: |
conclusion, end, ending, finish |
| Main Entry: | premiere |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | original production |
Synonyms: |
beginning, debut, first night, first performance, first showing, opening, opening night |
| Notes: | a debut is a first public appearance; a premiere is a first performance, showing, or broadcast |
Antonyms: |
closing |
| Main Entry: | presentation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | performance; something given, displayed |
Synonyms: |
act, appearance, arrangement, award, bestowal, coming out, conferral, debut, delivering, delivery, demonstration, display, dog and pony show, donation, exhibition, exposition, giving, introduction, investiture, knockdown, launch, launching, offering, overture, pitch, present, production, proposal, proposition, reception, remembrance, rendition, representation, sales pitch, show, staging, submission |