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exord

exord noun: a preface or prefatory passage.

Noun (1)

exord (plural exords)

  1. (rhetoric) A preface or prefatory passage.
    • One peculiarity of Bello is his having first broken through the custom of religious invocations at the heads of his cantos, in place of which he substituted poetical exords, or reflections on the events of his narrative, or on circumstances connected with them.1830, “Ferrario -- On Chivalry and Romance and Italian Romantic Poetry”, in Foreign Quarterly Review, volume VI, number XIII, page 387
    Synonyms:
    preface, proem, exordium

Noun (2) capitalized: EXORD

EXORD (plural EXORDS)

  1. (US) An execute order: an order to implement a specified plan.

Synonyms of exord

Forms of exord

pluralexords
pluralEXORDS

Origin of exord

From Latin exordium.

Abbreviation of execute order.

Questions about exord

What does exord mean?
Exord means a preface or prefatory passage.
What part of speech is exord?
Exord is a noun.
What is the plural of exord?
The plural of exord is exords.

Words near exord in the dictionary

  1. exorcized
  2. exorcizer
  3. exorcizers
  4. exorcizes
  5. exorcizing
  6. exord
  7. exordia
  8. exordial
  9. exordium
  10. exordiums
  11. exords

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