Associations to the word «Prologue»

Wiktionary

PROLOGUE, noun. A speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel.
PROLOGUE, noun. One who delivers a prologue.
PROLOGUE, noun. (computing) A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to execute a routine.
PROLOGUE, verb. To introduce with a formal preface, or prologue.

Dictionary definition

PROLOGUE, noun. An introduction to a play.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky