Usually means: Introduction to larger musical work.
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  1. overture: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. overture: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overture: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. overture: Collins English Dictionary
  5. overture: Vocabulary.com
  6. Overture, overture: Wordnik
  7. overture: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. overture: Wiktionary
  9. overture: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. overture: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. overture: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. overture: Dictionary.com
  13. overture: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. overture: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Overture (Bruckner), Overture (The Who song), Overture (disambiguation), Overture (novel), Overture (software), Overture (song), Overture (video game), Overture, The Overture: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Overture: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. overture: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. overture: Rhymezone
  19. overture: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. overture: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Overture: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. overture: Free Dictionary
  23. overture: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. overture: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. overture: Legal dictionary

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  1. OVERTURE: Medical dictionary

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  1. OVERTURE: Acronym Finder
  2. overture: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overture: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Overture: Search Engine Dictionary
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (obsolete) An opening; a recess or chamber.
noun:  (obsolete) Disclosure; discovery; revelation.
noun:  (often in plural) An approach or proposal made to initiate communication, establish a relationship etc.
noun:  (Scotland) A motion placed before a legislative body, such as the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
noun:  (music) A musical introduction to a longer piece of music or a dramatic work (such as a play, an opera, or a motion picture).
verb:  (intransitive) To make overtures; to approach with a proposal.
adjective:  (heraldry, nonstandard) Overt, that is, disclosed.

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