🎶prelude (pré-lude)

noun
/ˈprɛljuːd/
prélude (prelude)

Signification

An action, event, or statement that serves as an introduction to something more important.
Traduction de la signification
Une action, un événement ou une déclaration qui sert d'introduction à quelque chose de plus important.
Une action, un evenement ou une declaration qui sert d'introduction a quelque chose de plus important.

Phrases d'exemple

The small fight was only a prelude to a bigger conflict.

La petite bagarre n'était qu'un prélude à un plus grand conflit.
La petite bagarre n'etait qu'un prelude a un plus grand conflit.

Expressions d'exemple

a prelude to disaster
un prélude au désastre
un prelude au desastre

Synonymes

introduction, opening, forerunner, beginning, overture

Antonymes

conclusion, finale, end

Collocations

musical prelude, prelude to war, prelude to change

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