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| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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