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say it: in-truh-DOOS
introduce is a verb meaning "cause to come to know personally". It carries 10 recorded senses.
cause to come to know personally
“permit me to acquaint you with my son”
“introduce the new neighbors to the community”
bring something new to an environment
“A new word processor was introduced”
bring before the public for the first time, as of an actor, song, etc.
be a precursor of
“The fall of the Berlin Wall ushered in the post-Cold War period”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for introduce come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.