Usually means: Introduction or beginning of discourse.
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  1. exordium: Merriam-Webster
  2. exordium: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exordium: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. exordium: Collins English Dictionary
  5. exordium: Vocabulary.com
  6. Exordium, exordium: Wordnik
  7. exordium: Wiktionary
  8. exordium: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. exordium: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. exordium: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Exordium, exordium: Dictionary.com
  12. Exordium (EP), Exordium (rhetoric), Exordium: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. exordium: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. exordium: Rhymezone
  15. Exordium: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. exordium: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. exordium: FreeDictionary.org
  18. exordium: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. exordium: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. exordium: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Exordium: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

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  1. exordium: A Word A Day

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Definitions from Wiktionary (exordium)

▸ noun:  (formal) A beginning.
▸ noun:  The introduction to an essay or discourse.

Similar:
EXORD, proemium, proœmium, proemion, prooemion, origin, proem, prelusion, outsetting, outset, more...

Opposite:
peroration, conclusion, ending, finale

Types:
preamble, prologue, introduction, more...

Phrases:
exordium clause, more...

Adjectives:
long, brief, usual, short, famous, beautiful, poetical, formal, eloquent, whole, regular

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Similar:
EXORD, proemium, proœmium, proemion, prooemion, origin, proem, prelusion, outsetting, outset, more...

Opposite:
peroration, conclusion, ending, finale

Types:
preamble, prologue, introduction, more...

Phrases:
exordium clause, more...

Adjectives:
long, brief, usual, short, famous, beautiful, poetical, formal, eloquent, whole, regular



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