prelude

1. 1.

   serve as a prelude or opening to

   Broaderserve
2. 2.

   play as a prelude

   Broaderplay

   music

Other forms of prelude

plural

preludes·

past tense

preluded·

present participle

preluding·

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.

Questions about prelude

What does prelude mean?

prelude means "something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in prelude?

prelude has 2 syllables: pre-lude. The stress falls on "pre". In IPA it is /ˈpɹeɪˌlud/.

What is another word for prelude?

Close synonyms include preliminary, overture. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is prelude a common word?

prelude is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with prelude?

6 words rhyme with prelude. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.