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Meaning of "prolusion" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PROLUSION

From Latin prōlūsiō preliminary exercise, from prōlūdere to practise beforehand, from pro-1 + lūdere to play.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PROLUSION

prolusion  [prəˈluːʒən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROLUSION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Prolusion 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 PROLUSION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of prolusion in the English dictionary

The definition of prolusion in the dictionary is a preliminary written exercise. Other definition of prolusion is an introductory essay, sometimes of a slight or tentative nature.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROLUSION


allusion
əˈluːʒən
collusion
kəˈluːʒən
conclusion
kənˈkluːʒən
delusion
dɪˈluːʒən
disillusion
ˌdɪsɪˈluːʒən
elusion
ɪˈluːʒən
exclusion
ɪkˈskluːʒən
fusion
ˈfjuːʒən
illusion
ɪˈluːʒən
inclusion
ɪnˈkluːʒən
inconclusion
ˌɪnkənˈkluːʒən
interclusion
ˌɪntəˈkluːʒən
malocclusion
ˌmæləˈkluːʒən
nonconclusion
ˌnɒnkənˈkluːʒən
noninclusion
ˌnɒnɪnˈkluːʒən
occlusion
əˈkluːʒən
pollusion
pəˈluːʒən
preclusion
prɪˈkluːʒən
reclusion
rɪˈkluːʒən
seclusion
sɪˈkluːʒən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROLUSION

prolocutor
prolocutorship
prolocutrices
prolocutrix
PROLOG
prologist
prologize
prologue
prologuing
prologuise
prologuize
prolong
prolongable
prolongate
prolongation
prolonge
prolonged
prolonger
prolongment
prolusory

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROLUSION

blood transfusion
cold fusion
commission
diffusion
effusion
extrusion
in conclusion
infusion
intrusion
optical illusion
perfusion
profusion
protrusion
pultrusion
Rediffusion
refusion
self-delusion
social exclusion
social inclusion
suffusion
transfusion

Synonyms and antonyms of prolusion in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «prolusion» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROLUSION

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The translations of prolusion from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «prolusion» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

prolusion
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

prolusion
570 millions of speakers

English

prolusion
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

prolusion
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

prolusion
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

prolusion
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

prolusion
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

prolusion
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

prolusion
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Prolaan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

prolusion
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

prolusion
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

prolusion
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Usulan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

prolusion
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பெரும் இலக்கியத்தை அறிமுகப்படுத்தும் கட்டுரை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उष्मांक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

prolusion
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

prolusione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

prolusion
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

prolusion
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

prolusion
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

prolusion
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

voor spel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

prolusion
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

prolusion
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of prolusion

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROLUSION»

The term «prolusion» is normally little used and occupies the 139.776 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PROLUSION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «prolusion» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «prolusion» 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 prolusion

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROLUSION»

Discover the use of prolusion in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to prolusion and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Time and Idea: The Theory of History in Giambattista Vico
It had a provisional character, looking backward, on the one hand, to the lost university prolusion of 1719, and forward, on the other, to the De Uno and to the other portions of the complex work which was to come. In Vico's account this lost  ...
Aloysius Robert Caponigri, 2003
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Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot
Some of Milton's work for these kinds of debates survives, a speech on the (dull) question of whether day or night is better (known as 'Prolusion I'), a speech on the (marginally less dull) issue of the music of the spheres (known as 'Prolusion II' ) ...
Anna Beer, 2011
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The Empty Garden: The Subject of Late Milton
From Adam to Israel: Milton's Concept of the Evolution of Social Forms The statement with which I closed the previous chapter— that a single individual or a family may be capable of reforming an entire state— comes from Milton's Prolusion VII ...
Ashraf H. Rushdy, 1992
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University of Toronto Quarterly
But this sense is clearly expressed in Prolusion 1, which presumably belongs shortly after In Quintum Novembris, or early in 1627. The next allusion to the matter is in Prolusion 6 (June 1628), which announces the end of hostilities, and with it ...
‎1944
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"Matter of Glorious Trial": Spiritual and Material Substance ...
PROLUSION VI: SUBSTANCE OF THOUGHT, MATTER OF LANGUAGE So far, I have discussed in general terms how Milton's encounters with Aristotelianism, and especially Aristotelian logic, prompted him to admit the existence of a ...
N. K. Sugimura, 2009
6
The Cambridge University period, 1625-32
Problems, 58 Proctors, 16 prolusio, 239, 241, 260, 449 Prolusion, 366, 548 Prolusion I, 257, 261, 361, 424, 427, 431 ff., ... 464 Prolusion III, 260, 469 ff, 493 Prolusion IV, 179, 425 ff., 441 Prolusion V, 184, 471, 493 Prolusion VI, 133, 153, 262 f., ...
Harris Francis Fletcher, 1956
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The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and ...
The Sequel of Strada's Prolusion, Kb. ii.Jirol. 6. The poet who personated Ovid, gives an account of the chryso-magnet, or of the load-stone which attracts gold, after the same manner as the common load-stone attracts iron. The author, that he ...
Alexander Chalmers, 1810
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Milton Among the Philosophers: Poetry and Materialism in ...
Critics point to Milton's Baconian enthusiasm in the "Third Prolusion" and to the eager commendation of scientific endeavor in the "Seventh Prolusion" and contrast these with the tentativeness of the astronomy in Paradise Lost and the outburst ...
Stephen M. Fallon, 2006
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Vulgar Eloquence: On the Renaissance Invention of English ...
22 Here, the nonce word "crescive" — which seems to be arrested in its passage between Latin and English — recalls Horace's "crescit" and later, in the Seventh Prolusion, it is remembered by Milton's "crescere." The meaning of Milton's ...
Sean Keilen, 2006
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers
THE SEQUEL OF STRADA S PROLUSION, LIB. II. PROL. 6. The poet, who personated Ovid, gives an account of the chryso-magnet, or of the load-stone which attracts gold, after the same manner as the common loadstone attracts iron .
British essayists, Alexander Chalmers, 1823

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROLUSION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term prolusion is used in the context of the following news items.
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Seattle-area bus fleet will welcome 120 hybrid powered vehicles …
... Washington has commissioned 120 New Flyer Xcelsior buses that will be powered by BAE Systems' HybriDrive Series-E prolusion systems. «Greener Ideal, Oct 13»
2
Judicial Intervention to Control Lawful Rallies: Subverting …
This does not deal with a moving procession or a meeting, rather a nuisance that is created by way of prolusion, obstructive construction or any ... «Groundviews, Feb 12»
3
Photos: Iran unveils Dena, second domestic car
The car meets Euro 4 prolusion standards and can be promoted to Euro 5 level. Dena is expected to have the lifespan of some seven years. «Payvand, Apr 11»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Prolusion [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/prolusion>. May 2024 ».
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