- adjectivepreliminary (adjective)
- denoting an action or event preceding or done in preparation for something fuller or more important:"the discussions were seen as preliminary to the policy paper" · "preliminary talks"
nounpreliminary (noun) · preliminaries (plural noun)- an action or event preceding or preparing for something fuller or more important:"the bombardment was resumed as a preliminary to an infantry attack"
- (preliminaries)business or talk, especially of a formulaic or polite nature, taking place before an action or event:"she began speaking, without preliminaries"
- a preliminary round in a sporting competition.
- (preliminaries)the prelims or front matter of a book.
Originmid 17th century: from modern Latin praeliminaris or French préliminaire, from Latin prae ‘before’ + limen, limin- ‘threshold’.Similar and Opposite Wordsadjectivenoun
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