Synonyms of the word overture


OVERTUREADVANCE - APPROACH - FEELER - INCEPTION - MUSIC - ORIGIN - ORIGINATION - PRELIMINARY - PRELUDE - PROFFER - PROPOSITION - SUGGESTION

overture

  • n. (obsolete) An opening; a recess or chamber.
  • n. (obsolete) Disclosure; discovery; revelation.
  • n. (often in plural) An approach or proposal made to initiate communication, establish a relationship etc.
  • n. (Scotland) A motion placed before a legislative body, such as the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
  • n. (music) A musical introduction to a piece of music.
  • v. (intransitive) To make overtures; to approach with a proposal.

advance

  • v. To bring forward; to move towards the front; to make to go on.
  • v. (obsolete) To raise; to elevate.
  • v. To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
  • v. To accelerate the growth or progress of; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten.
  • v. To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show.
  • v. To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
  • v. To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand.
  • v. To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate.
  • v. (intransitive) To move forwards, to approach.
  • v. (obsolete) To extol; to laud.
  • n. A forward move; improvement or progression.
  • n. An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
  • n. An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
  • n. (in the plural) An opening approach or overture, especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
  • adj. Completed before need or a milestone event.
  • adj. Preceding.
  • adj. Forward.

approach

  • v. (intransitive) To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate.
  • v. (transitive) To come near to in place, time, character, or value; to draw nearer to.
  • v. To make an attempt at (solving a problem or making a policy).
  • v. To speak to, as to make a request or ask a question.
  • v. (transitive, military) To take approaches to.
  • v. To bring near; to cause to draw near.
  • n. The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near.
  • n. An access, or opportunity of drawing near.
  • n. (in the plural) Movements to gain favor; advances.
  • n. A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access.
  • n. A manner in which a problem is solved or policy is made.
  • n. (used only in the plural, fortification) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers…
  • n. (golf, tennis) An approach shot.
  • n. The way an aircraft comes in to land at an airport.
  • n. (bowling) The area before the lane, in which a player may stand or run up before bowling the ball.

feeler

  • n. (literally) Someone or something that feels.
  • n. (anatomy) An antenna or appendage used for feeling, especially on an insect.
  • n. (figuratively) Something ventured to test another's feelings, opinion, or position.

inception

  • n. The creation or beginning of something; the establishment.

music

  • n. A sound, or the study of such sounds, organized in time.
  • n. (figuratively) Any pleasing or interesting sounds.
  • n. An art form, created by organizing of pitch, rhythm, and sounds made using musical instruments and sometimes…
  • n. A guide to playing or singing a particular tune; sheet music.
  • v. (transitive) To seduce or entice with music.

origin

  • n. The beginning of something.
  • n. The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
  • n. (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
  • n. (anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of…
  • n. (cartography) An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
  • n. (in the plural) Ancestry.

origination

  • n. (uncountable) The process of bringing something into existence.
  • n. (countable) The act of bringing something into existence.

preliminary

  • adj. in preparation for the main matter; initial, introductory, preparatory.
  • n. A preparation for a main matter; an introduction.
  • n. Any of a series of sports events that determine the finalists.
  • n. A relatively minor contest that precedes a major one, especially in boxing.

prelude

  • n. An introductory or preliminary performance or event; a preface.
  • n. (music) A short piece of music that acts as an introduction to a longer piece.
  • v. To introduce something, as a prelude.
  • v. To play an introduction or prelude; to give a prefatory performance.

proffer

  • n. An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender.
  • n. (law) Something that is offered into evidence; an offer to which one is willing to testify under oath.
  • n. Essay; attempt.
  • v. To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of.
  • v. To essay or attempt of one’s own accord; to undertake, or propose to undertake.

proposition

  • n. (uncountable) The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.
  • n. (countable) An idea or a plan offered.
  • n. (countable, business settings) The terms of a transaction offered.
  • n. (countable, US, politics) In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on…
  • n. (grammar) a complete sentence.
  • n. (countable, logic) The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered…
  • n. (countable, mathematics) An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.
  • n. (countable, mathematics) An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a…
  • n. A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed.
  • n. (poetry) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To make a suggestion of sexual intercourse to (someone who one is not sexually…
  • v. (transitive, informal) To make an offer or suggestion to (someone).

suggestion

  • n. (countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for).
  • n. (uncountable) The act of suggesting.
  • n. (countable, psychology) Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
  • n. (law, countable) information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence.

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