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forebook

forebook noun: a prelude to a book or series of books; a preface.

Noun

forebook (plural forebooks)

  1. A prelude to a book or series of books; a preface.
    • Could it be that for the writer everything happens in a forebook whose end he cannot see, whose end is in his book?2001, Martin McQuillan, Deconstruction
    • At Wisconsin, Galpin also wrote a "forebook" to what was to be an eight-book series on rural life [...]2010, Julie N. Zimmerman, Olaf F. Larson, Opening Windows Onto Hidden Lives

Forms of forebook

pluralforebooks
alternative formfore-book

Origin of forebook

From fore- + book.

Questions about forebook

What does forebook mean?
Forebook means a prelude to a book or series of books; a preface.
What part of speech is forebook?
Forebook is a noun.
What is the plural of forebook?
The plural of forebook is forebooks.

Words near forebook in the dictionary

  1. foreboding
  2. forebodingly
  3. forebodingness
  4. forebodings
  5. forebody
  6. forebook
  7. forebooks
  8. foreboom
  9. forebooms
  10. forebooth
  11. forebooths

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