We found 37 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word overture:
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 General (28 matching dictionaries)
- overture: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
- overture: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info]
- overture: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- overture: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
- overture: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
- Overture: Wiktionary [home, info]
- overture: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
- overture: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
- overture: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
- overture: Dictionary.com [home, info]
- overture: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
- overture: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
- overture: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
- Overture (Candide), Overture (Def Leppard song), Overture (Jesus Christ Superstar), Overture (The Who), Overture (The Who Song), Overture (disambiguation), Overture (dream theatre), Overture (news music), Overture (song), Overture, The Overture: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
- Overture: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
- overture: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
- overture: Rhymezone [home, info]
- overture: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
- overture: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
- overture: Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition [home, info]
- overture: The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy [home, info]
- Overture: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
- Overture: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
- overture: Free Dictionary [home, info]
- overture: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
- overture: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
- overture: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
- overture: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
Art (4 matching dictionaries)
- overture: Essentials of Music [home, info]
- OVERTURE: Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms [home, info]
- Overture: Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary [home, info]
- Overture: DAVID'S GLOSSARY OF THEATRE TERMS [home, info]
Computing (1 matching dictionary)
- overture: Encyclopedia [home, info]
Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
- OVERTURE: MT DESK Medical/Drugs/Surgical Terms [home, info]
- OVERTURE: Medical dictionary [home, info]
Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
- Overture: Search Engine Dictionary [home, info]
- Overture: Sweetwater Music [home, info]
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Quick definitions (overture)
▸ noun: orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio
▸ noun: a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
▸ noun: something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows ("Drinks were the overture to dinner")
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