overture

overture is a 8-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An opening or aperture; a recess; a recess; a chamber. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. An opening or aperture; a recess; a recess; a chamber.
2. Disclosure; discovery; revelation.
3. A proposal; an offer; a proposition formally submitted for consideration, acceptance, or rejection.
4. 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.
5. transitive verb. To make an overture to; as, to overture a religious body on some subject.
6. noun. orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio
7. noun. a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others

   "she rejected his advances"

   Synonyms: advance, approach, feeler

8. noun. 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: preliminary, prelude

Synonyms

advance, approach, feeler, preliminary, prelude

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in overture:

overtrue, trouvere

Common word forms

overtured, overtures, overturing

Words from these letters

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