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Meaning of "prolegomenon" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PROLEGOMENON

From Greek, from prolegein, from pro-² + legein to say.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PROLEGOMENON

prolegomenon  [ˌprəʊlɛˈɡɒmɪnən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROLEGOMENON

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Prolegomenon is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PROLEGOMENON MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Introduction (writing)

In an essay, article, or book, an introduction is a beginning section which states the purpose and goals of the following writing. This is generally followed by the body and conclusion. The introduction typically describes the scope of the document and gives the brief explanation or summary of the document. It may also explain certain elements that are important to the essay if explanations are not part of the main text. The readers can have an idea about the following text before they actually start reading it. ln technical writing, the introduction typically includes one or more standard subsections: abstract or summary, preface, acknowledgments, and foreword. Alternatively, the section labeled introduction itself may be a brief section found side-by-side with abstract, foreword, etc.. In this case the set of sections that come before the body of the book are known as the front matter. When the book is divided into numbered chapters, by convention the introduction and any other front-matter sections are unnumbered and precede chapter 1. Keeping the concept of the introduction the same, different documents have different styles to introduce the written text.

Definition of prolegomenon in the English dictionary

The definition of prolegomenon in the dictionary is a preliminary discussion, esp a formal critical introduction to a lengthy text.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROLEGOMENON


Canaan
ˈkeɪnən
Clendinnen
ˌklɛnˈdɪnən
Dunsinane
dʌnˈsɪnən
epiphenomenon
ˌɛpɪfɪˈnɒmɪnən
McKinnon
məˈkɪnən
noumenon
ˈnuːmɪnən
phaenomenon
fɪˈnɒmɪnən
phenomenon
fɪˈnɒmɪnən
phi-phenomenon
ˈfaɪfɪˌnɒmɪnən
Saarinen
ˈsɑːrɪnən
superphenomenon
ˈsuːpərfɪˌnɒmɪnən
underlinen
ˈʌndəˌlɪnən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROLEGOMENON

prole
proleg
prolegomena
prolegomenal
prolegomenary
prolegomenous
prolepses
prolepsis
proleptic
proleptical
proleptically
proler
proletarian
proletarianise
proletarianism
proletarianize
proletarianness
proletariat
proletariate
proletaries

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROLEGOMENON

autokinetic phenomenon
figure-ground phenomenon
guenon
hapax legomenon
hebenon
Krishna Menon
Maintenon
Menon
paraleipomenon
paralipomenon
Parthenon
perispomenon
properispomenon
Simenon
tenon
theologoumenon
tusk tenon
xenon

Synonyms and antonyms of prolegomenon in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «prolegomenon» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROLEGOMENON

Find out the translation of prolegomenon to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of prolegomenon from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «prolegomenon» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

绪论
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

prolegómeno
570 millions of speakers

English

prolegomenon
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भूमिका
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

prolegomenon
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пролегомены
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

prolegomenon
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভূমিকা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

prolégomènes
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Prolegomenon
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Prolegomenon
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

序論
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

prolegomenon
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Prolegomenon
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

prolegomenon
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பாயிரம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रोजेक्ट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

prolegomenon
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

prolegomenon
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

prolegomenon
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пролегомени
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

prolegomenon
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

prolegomenon
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

prolegomenon
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

prolegomenon
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

prolegomenon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of prolegomenon

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROLEGOMENON»

The term «prolegomenon» is normally little used and occupies the 131.452 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PROLEGOMENON» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «prolegomenon» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «prolegomenon» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about prolegomenon

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROLEGOMENON»

Discover the use of prolegomenon in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to prolegomenon and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
How to Build a Person: A Prolegomenon
Pollock describes an exciting theory of rationality and its partial implementation in OSCAR, a computer system whose descendants will literally be persons.
John L. Pollock, 1989
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A prolegomenon to the forecasting of transportation development
Several idiosyncratic models are examined and their properties specified. The forecasting of transportation stocks and commodity flows is discussed. Models of the demand for transportation services are implemented with empirical data.
William Louis Garrison, Duane Francis Marble, Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Transportation Center, 1965
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The Fabric of Theology: A Prolegomenon to Evangelical Theology
After showing that today's evangelicals have not fared well in the crucible of modern pluralism, Lints argues that in order to regain spiritual wholeness, evangelicals must relearn how to think and live theologically.
Richard Lints, 1993
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The Sorrow and the Pity: A Prolegomenon to a History of ...
This work aims to establish better bases for reconstructing Peisistratid history, but also for comprehending the psychology of Athenian antityrannism.
Brian M. Lavelle, 1993
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Incompleteness, Nonlocality, and Realism: A Prolegomenon to ...
This book concentrates on research done during the last twenty years on the philosophy of quantum mechanics.
Michael Redhead, 1989
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Malady of Meditation: A Prolegomenon to the Study of Illness ...
Chapter Three turns to the Chan master Dahui Zonggao (1089--1163), his autobiography, and the remedy that he recommended to those suffering from the malady of meditation, namely "observing the phrase meditation" (kanhua chan).
Juhn Young Ahn, 2007
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The New Nobility: A Prolegomenon to Plato's "Greater Hippias".
These political teachings are timely and timeless, positive and perplexing, inviting us to consider contemporary academics and intellectuals by raising ourselves to Socratic self-awareness and ignorance, spurring the search for a nobility ...
Bryan Henry Smith, 2009
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The Translation Studies Reader
Chapter. 1. 9. William. Frawley. PROLEGOMENON. TO. A. THEORY. OF. TRANSLATION. OR TRANSLATION THEORY, banal messages are the breath of life." So remarks Quine in his famous statement on translation in Word and Object .
Lawrence Venuti, 2000
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Progymnasmata: Greek Textbooks of Prose Composition and Rhetoric
Prolegomenon,. or. Introduction,. to. the. Progymnasmata. of. Aphthonius. the. Sophist. By the fifth century after Christ, teachers of rhetoric had created comprehensive textbooks by combining various works into a single corpus for their own and ...
George Alexander Kennedy, 2003
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Pottery, Poetry, and Prophecy: Studies in Early Hebrew Poetry
PROLEGOMENON. TO. G. B. GRAY,. THE. FORMS. OF. HEBREW. POETRY. George Buchanan Gray was born in 1865. His education was not typical of nineteenth-century England in that he was not initially a product of the "Oxbridge"  ...
David Noel Freedman, 1980

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROLEGOMENON»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term prolegomenon is used in the context of the following news items.
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Lionel: Trump, Guns, Putin, Perception, Media, Lies, Hillary
Your perception and awareness have nothing to do with reality. Rather than provide a prolegomenon of this podcast installment, just listen. And ... «Talk Radio News Service, Jul 15»
2
Ray in New York, again
Besides TheNew Yorker (you can forgive critic Richard Brody for using the words “bildungsroman” and “prolegomenon” in the same insightful ... «Livemint, May 15»
3
The Miraculous Apu Trilogy
In effect, the Apu trilogy is a sort of prolegomenon to future cinema, a one-man New Wave in which Ray derives both the self-mythologizing ... «The New Yorker, May 15»
4
Ted Cruz, our ayatollah: Fight back now, or welcome to the 2016 …
After a desultory prolegomenon in which Barber inveighs against “the secular left's utter disdain for both our Creator Christ and His faithful ... «Salon, May 15»
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CHARLES NNOLIM: Sublimity will continue to elude African writers …
2, Fall 1976), I had an essay entitled “An African Literary Aesthetic: A Prolegomenon” (pp. 56-74). It was difficult to describe in one phrase, ... «Daily Sun, May 15»
6
New Texts Out Now: Joseph A. Massad, Islam in Liberalism
In my next book, tentatively titled Genealogies of Islam, for which Islam in Liberalism is intended to serve as a prolegomenon, I will study the ... «Jadaliyya, Mar 15»
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Scientific Seeker Stuart Kauffman on Free Will, God, ESP and Other …
Published elsewhere as "Prolegomenon to Patterns in Evolution," in Biosystems, 2014. Science advances by negative results. This if true is ... «Scientific American, Feb 15»
8
Editorial: Missouri has ignored municipal courts for generations. It's …
Mr. Lauer's paper, “Prolegomenon to Municipal Court Reform in Missouri,” was published in the winter edition of the Missouri Law Review that ... «STLtoday.com, Nov 14»
9
Why Oh Why Can't We Have A Better Economist Corps?
A second prolegomenon: believe it or not, I don't dislike Brad DeLong. He and I had mostly pleasant conversations when he followed me on ... «Forbes, Sep 14»
10
National Carrier - Missed Opportunities
... and excellent professional approach will all combinedly be a prolegomenon to any future effort towards floatation of a virile National Carrier. «The Guardian, Aug 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Prolegomenon [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/prolegomenon>. Apr 2024 ».
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