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frontmatter

frontmatter 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 frontmatter

What is frontmatter the alternative form of?
Frontmatter is the alternative form of front matter.

Words near frontmatter in the dictionary

  1. frontloaders
  2. frontloading
  3. frontloads
  4. frontly
  5. frontman
  6. frontmatter
  7. frontmen
  8. frontmost
  9. frontness
  10. fronto-
  11. frontobasal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: frontmatter (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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