Meaning of INTRODUCTORY
| Pronunciation: | | `intru'dukturee
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- [adj] serving as an introduction or preface
- [adj] serving to open or begin; "began the slide show with some introductory remarks"
- [adj] serving as a base or starting point; "a basic course in Russian"; "basic training for raw recruits"; "a set of basic tools"; "an introductory art course"
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| | Synonyms: | | basic, first, opening, preceding(a), prefatorial, prefatory |
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| | Definition: | | \In`tro*duc"to*ry\, a. [L. itroductorius: cf. F.
introductoire.]
Serving to introduce something else; leading to the main
subject or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductory
proceedings; an introductory discourse.
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| | Related Terms: | | abecedarian, aboriginal, antenatal, autochthonous, autodidactic, baptismal, basic, beginning, budding, coeducational, creative, cultural, didactic, disciplinary, edifying, educating, educational, educative, elemental, elementary, embryonic, enlightening, exhortatory, fetal, first, formative, foundational, fundamental, gestatory, homiletic, hortatory, illuminating, in embryo, in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular, inductive, infant, infantile, informative, initial, initiative, initiatory, instructive, introductive, inventive, lecturing, nascent, natal, opening, original, parturient, postnatal, preaching, preceptive, prefatory, pregnant, preliminary, preludial, prelusive, prenatal, preparative, preparatory, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, procreative, proemial, propaedeutic, rudimental, rudimentary, self-teaching, teaching, tuitionary, ur |
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