front matter

noun

front matter

noun

1

Within a book, all preliminary content preceding the main text.

Meronyms: acknowledgements, copyright page, dedication, edition notice, foreword, frontispiece, half title, introduction, preface, prologue, table of contents, title page

Synonyms: front matter, forematter, prelims
Antonyms: back matter, body matter
Hypernyms: precursor
Holonyms: book
Meronyms: acknowledgment, bastard title, colophon, dedication, dramatis personae, epigraph, foreword, frontispiece, half title, table of contents, title page

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