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Meaning of overture


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  overture
      n 1: orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or
           oratorio
      2: something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what
         follows; "training is a necessary preliminary to employment";
         "drinks were the overture to dinner" [syn: {preliminary},
         {overture}, {prelude}]
      3: a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of
         others; "she rejected his advances" [syn: {overture},
         {advance}, {approach}, {feeler}]


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