About The Word Overture
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Overture
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What's The Definition Of Overture?
[n] orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio
[n] a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others; "she rejected his advances" [n] 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 | Synonyms for Overture: advance | approach | feeler | preliminary | prelude Related Terms | Find terms related to Overture: advance | approach | asking price | avant-propos | bid | breakthrough | concert overture | curtain raiser | descant | dramatic overture | exordium | feeler | foreword | front matter | frontispiece | innovation | introduction | invitation | leap | offer | offering | operatic overture | overtures | postulate | preamble | preface | prefix | prefixture | preliminary | preliminary approach | prelude | premise | presentation | presupposition | proem | proffer | prolegomena | prolegomenon | prolepsis | prologue | proposal | proposition | protasis | submission | tender | tentative approach | vamp | verse | voluntary | Vorspiel See Also | inception | music | origin | origination | proffer | proposition | suggestion Overture In Webster's Dictionary \O"ver*ture\, [OF. overture, F. ouverture, fr. OF.
ovrir, F. ouvrir. See {Overt}.]
1. An opening or aperture; a recess; a recess; a chamber.
[Obs.] --Spenser. ``The cave's inmost overture.''
--Chapman.
2. Disclosure; discovery; revelation. [Obs.]
It was he That made the overture of thy treasons to
us. --Shak.
3. A proposal; an offer; a proposition formally submitted for
consideration, acceptance, or rejection. ``The great
overture of the gospel.'' --Barrow.
4. (Mus.) A composition, for a full orchestra, designed as an
introduction to an oratorio, opera, or ballet, or as an
independent piece; -- called in the latter case a {concert
overture}.
\O"ver*ture\, v. t. To make an overture to; as, to overture a religious body on some subject. |
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