prequel
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kwəl noun
a literary, dramatic, or filmic work that prefigures a later work, as by portraying the same characters at a younger age.
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| a film or book about an earlier stage of a story or a character's life, released because the later part of it has already been successful | |
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Prequel
is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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prequel
a literary or dramatic work whose story precedes that of an earlier-written work. For example, Lillian Hellman's play Another Part of the Forest (1946) portrays the earlier lives of the characters she first wrote about in The Little Foxes (1939).
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Example sentences
It would also work well as a prequel to reading the novel.
Position design and descriptions, then, are a required prequel to recruitment.
Too bad neither prequel nor sequel could logically bring them all together again.
We think the registered traveler program with frequent flyers is a good place to start, but that could also be a prequel.
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