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introduction - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: introduction
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: something new; something that begins
Synonyms: addition, admittance, awakening, baptism, beginning, commencement, debut, establishment, foreword, inauguration, inception, induction, influx, ingress, initiation, insertion, installation, institution, launch, lead, opening, overture, preamble, preface, prelude, presentation, primer, proem, prologue, survey, basic principles, basic text, essentials, exordium, first acquaintance, first taste, hornbook, interpolation, intro, lead-in, opening remarks, pioneering, preliminaries, prolegomenon
Antonyms: conclusion, end, ending, finish
Main Entry: access
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: admission, means of entry, approach
Synonyms: admittance, approach, avenue, connection, contact, course, door, entrance, entree, entry, ingress, introduction, key, open door*, passage, path, road, route, way, in, open arms
Antonyms: egress, outlet
Main Entry: baptism
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: church rite; initiation
Synonyms: ablution, debut, dedication, introduction, purge, purification, rite of passage, ritual, sprinkling, baptismal, christening, dunking, immersion, launching, lustration, purgation, sanctification
Main Entry: debut
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: first public appearance
Synonyms: admission, appearance, beginning, bow, entrance, entree, graduation, inauguration, incoming, initiation, introduction, presentation, coming out, coming out party, first step, graduating, launching, opener
Notes: a debut is a first public appearance; a premiere is a first performance, showing, or broadcast
Antonyms: finale, closing
Main Entry: entrée
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: admittance
Synonyms: access, adit, admission, connection, contact, debut, door, entrance, entry, incoming, induction, ingress, introduction, open door*, way, importation, in, open arms
Antonyms: rejection, blackballing
Main Entry: exposure
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: uncovering; putting in view or danger
Synonyms: acknowledgment, betrayal, confession, denunciation, disclosure, display, exhibition, exposé, hazard, introduction, jeopardy, liability, manifestation, nakedness, peril, presentation, publicity, revelation, risk, showing, susceptibility, airing, baring, defenselessness, denudation, divulgence, divulging, giveaway, laying open, openness, susceptiveness, susceptivity, unfolding, unmasking, unveiling, vulnerability, vulnerableness
Antonyms: concealment, covering, hiding
Main Entry: influx
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: flow, rush
Synonyms: arrival, convergence, entrance, incursion, introduction, inundation, invasion, penetration, coming in, inflow, inpouring, inrush
Main Entry: innovation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: change, novelty
Synonyms: addition, alteration, contraption, cutting edge*, departure, deviation, introduction, last word*, latest thing*, leading edge*, modification, mutation, newness, notion, permutation, shift, variation, vicissitude, wrinkle*, modernism, modernization
Antonyms: custom, habit, old, old hat, rut, tradition
Main Entry: origination
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: origin
Synonyms: beginning, birth, commencement, conception, creation, dawn, discovery, genesis, innovation, introduction, launch, source, start, dawning, starting point
Main Entry: preliminary
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: introductory event; beginning
Synonyms: foundation, groundwork, initiation, introduction, opening, preamble, preface, prelude, preparation, start, first round, prelims
Antonyms: conclusion, finale, closing
Main Entry: prelude
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: beginning of event
Synonyms: commencement, foreword, introduction, overture, preamble, preface, preliminary, preparation, proem, prologue, start, curtain-raiser, exordium, intro, prelusion, prolegomenon
Antonyms: ending, epilogue, postlude
Main Entry: presentation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: performance; something given, displayed
Synonyms: act, appearance, arrangement, award, debut, delivery, demonstration, display, dog and pony show*, donation, exhibition, exposition, giving, introduction, launch, offering, overture, pitch, present, production, proposal, proposition, reception, remembrance, rendition, representation, show, submission, bestowal, coming out, conferral, delivering, investiture, knockdown*, launching, sales pitch, staging
Main Entry: prologue
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: preface
Synonyms: beginning, explanation, foreword, introduction, opening, overture, preamble, prelude, proem, exordium, prolegomenon
Main Entry: insertion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: insert
Synonyms: inclusion, infusion, injection, interjection, introduction, interpolation
Main Entry: entree
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: admittance
Synonyms: access, adit, admission, connection, contact, debut, door, entrance, entry, incoming, induction, ingress, introduction, open door, way, importation, in, open arms
Antonyms: prohibition, rejection
Main Entry: mentioning
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: speaking of
Synonyms: introduction, suggesting, citing, inferring, intimating, making known, naming, referring to, specifying, taking note of
Main Entry: front matter
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: preliminary pages
Synonyms: introduction, preface, preliminary, explanatory matter, preliminaries, prelims
Main Entry: admission
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: entering or allowing entry
Synonyms: acceptance, access, admittance, confirmation, designation, door, entrance, entree, ingress, initiation, introduction, permission, reception, recognition, way, welcome, certification
Antonyms: denial, exclusion, expulsion, refusal
Main Entry: appearance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: coming into sight
Synonyms: advent, arrival, coming, debut, display, emergence, entrance, exhibition, introduction, manifestation, presence, presentation, representation, rise, actualization, appearing, materialization, showing up, turning up, unveiling
Antonyms: absence, departure, disappearance, leaving
Main Entry: beginning
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: start of an event or action
Synonyms: alpha, basis, birth, commencement, creation, dawn, genesis, inauguration, inception, induction, infancy, initiation, installation, introduction, kickoff, onset, opening, origin, origination, outset, preface, prelude, presentation, rise, root, source, spring, square one*, takeoff, threshold, top, blastoff, dawning, day one, opener, point of departure, rudiment, starting point
Antonyms: completion, conclusion, consummation, end, ending, finish, goal, termination
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