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foreword - 4 dictionary results

fore⋅word

[fawr-wurd, -werd, fohr-]
–noun
a short introductory statement in a published work, as a book, esp. when written by someone other than the author.
Compare afterword.


Origin:
1835–45; fore- + word


See introduction.
fore·word   (fôr'wərd, fōr'-)   
n.  A preface or an introductory note, as for a book, especially by a person other than the author.

Foreword

Fore"word`\, n. A preface. --Furnvall.
Language Translation for : foreword
Spanish: prefacio, prólogo,
German: das Vorwort,
Japanese: 序文

foreword 
1842, perhaps a loan-translation of Ger. Vorwart "preface," modeled on L. præfatio "preface."
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