preface

preface is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Something spoken as introductory to a discourse, or written as introductory to a book or essay; a proem; an introduction, or series of preliminary remarks. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Something spoken as introductory to a discourse, or written as introductory to a book or essay; a proem; an introduction, or series of preliminary remarks.
2. noun. The prelude or introduction to the canon of the Mass.
3. transitive verb. To introduce by a preface; to give a preface to; as, to preface a book discourse.
4. intransitive verb. To make a preface.
5. noun. a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book

   Synonyms: foreword, prolusion

6. verb. furnish with a preface or introduction

   "She always precedes her lectures with a joke"

   "He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution"

   Synonyms: introduce, precede, premise

Synonyms

foreword, prolusion, introduce, precede, premise

Common word forms

prefaced, prefacer, prefaces, prefacing, prefaceable

Words from these letters

If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for PREFACE lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.