Antonyms for Prélude
ˈprɛl yud, ˈpreɪl-, ˈpreɪ lud, ˈpri-prélude

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1. prelude

   Antonyms:
   sequel, conclusion

   Synonyms:
   introduction, preparation, preface, proem, prelusion, overture

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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. preliminary, overture, preludenoun

   something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows

   "training is a necessary preliminary to employment"; "drinks were the overture to dinner"

   Synonyms:
   approach, feeler, overture, preliminary, advance, prelim, prelude

2. preludeverb

   music that precedes a fugue or introduces an act in an opera

   Synonyms:
   overture, preliminary

3. preludeverb

   serve as a prelude or opening to

4. preludeverb

   play as a prelude

How to use Prélude in a sentence?

1. Henry Rome:

   The way I look at it, this is the substitute for a military response, not the prelude to it.

2. Eduard Hanslick:

   The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.

3. Shirley MacLaine:

   The pain of leaving those you've grown to love is only the prelude to an understanding of yourself and others.

4. Justin Onuekwusi:

   Of course, it doesn't help that almost as a prelude to the conversation you get tweets that are quite antagonistic.

5. President Barack Obama:

   That's an area where there's just not enough national consensus at this stage to even consider it. And part of it is is people's concern that that becomes a prelude to taking people's guns away, part of the challenge of this is that the gun debate gets wrapped up in broader debates about whether the federal government is oppressive and there are conspiracy theories floating around the Internet these days all the time.

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