Victor's editor insisted that he cut out the prologue from his novel draft.
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Prologue
//ˈpɹoʊlɔɡ//
Synonyms for "prologue" (63 found)
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Related words (31)
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1 entriescapable of
1 entriesderived
4 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
1 entriespart of
1 entriesrelated to
16 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
37 translations across 28 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πρόλογος noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
Armenian
2 entries- նախաբան noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
- նախաբանություն noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
Bengali
1 entries- প্রাক্ কথন noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
Bulgarian
1 entries- пролог noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
Catalan
1 entries- pròleg noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 序幕 noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
Czech
1 entries- prolog noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
Dutch
1 entries- proloog noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
Esperanto
1 entries- prologo noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
Finnish
1 entries- prologi noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
French
1 entries- prologue noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
German
1 entries- Prolog noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
Hebrew
1 entries- פרולוג noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
Hungarian
3 entries- bevezető noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
- előszó noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
- prológus noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
Japanese
3 entries- プロローグ noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
- 序幕 noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
- 序章 noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
Latin
1 entries- praefātiō noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- prolog noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
Polish
1 entries- prolog noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
Portuguese
1 entries- prólogo noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
Russian
2 entries- предисло́вие noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
- проло́г noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- ro-ràdh noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- pròlog noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
- prȅdgovōr noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
- пре̏дгово̄р noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
- про̀лог noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
Spanish
1 entries- prólogo noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
Swedish
1 entries- prolog noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
Telugu
1 entries- పూర్వరంగము noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
Ukrainian
1 entries- проло́г noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
Uyghur
1 entries- مۇقەددىمە noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
Yiddish
1 entries- פּראָלאָג noun (speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
This movie is divided into six chapters, and it even has a prologue before the title screen.
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They say this novel is a classic, but I gave up at the prologue.
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A book without a prologue is like a body without a soul.
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