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Definition of prequel - 4 dictionary results

pre⋅quel

[pree-kwuhl]
–noun
a literary, dramatic, or filmic work that prefigures a later work, as by portraying the same characters at a younger age.

Origin:
1970–75; pre- + (se)quel
pre·quel   (prē'kwəl)   
n.  A literary, dramatic, or cinematic work whose narrative takes place before that of a preexisting work or a sequel.

[pre- + (se)quel.]

prequel 
1973, from pre-, based on sequel (q.v.).

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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