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front-matter

front-matter is the alternative form of front matter.

Meaning of front matter

Noun

front matter (uncountable)

  1. Within a book, all preliminary content preceding the main text.
    • Meronyms: acknowledgements, copyright page, dedication, edition notice, foreword, frontispiece, half title, introduction, preface, prologue, table of contents, title page
    Synonyms:
    forematter, prelims

Questions about front-matter

What is front-matter the alternative form of?
Front-matter is the alternative form of front matter.

Words near front-matter in the dictionary

  1. front-line
  2. front-load
  3. front-loaded
  4. front-loading
  5. front-loads
  6. front-matter
  7. front-of-house
  8. front-of-house curtain
  9. front-of-house curtains
  10. front-page
  11. front-pager

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Adapted from Wiktionary: front-matter (page history and authors); front matter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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