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overture has 5 distinct synonyms spread across 2 of its 3 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio
something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows
“training is a necessary preliminary to employment”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for overture come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
“she rejected his advances”