📚 Prefatory, adjective. 🔉 /ˈprɛfət(ə)ri/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Serving as an introduction; introductory. ❗️ Examples: 1. In his prefatory remarks the author claims that … 2. It's a book that's always beginning, where everything is introductory, liminal, prefatory. 3. As Nelson writes in a prefatory note, ‘A requiem, by definition, is sad; the person it honors has died.’ 4. After a prefatory reference to the ‘inherent dignity’ of all human beings, the Universal Declaration simply declares certain values to be human rights. 5. ‘I am neither a historian nor a lawyer,’ Malkin reminds her reader in the book's prefatory note. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic