Usually means: Introductions setting stage for story.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word prologues:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. prologues: Merriam-Webster
  2. prologues: Collins English Dictionary
  3. prologues: Vocabulary.com
  4. Prologues, prologues: Wordnik
  5. prologues: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. prologues: Wiktionary
  7. prologues: Dictionary.com
  8. prologues: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. prologues: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prologues: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prologues: Encyclopedia

(Note: See prologue as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (prologue)

noun:  A speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel.
noun:  One who delivers a prologue.
noun:  (computing) A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to execute a routine.
noun:  (cycling) An individual time trial before a stage race, used to determine which rider wears the leader's jersey on the first stage.
noun:  (Eastern Orthodoxy) A liturgical book containing daily readings, including hagiography.
verb:  To introduce with a formal preface, or prologue.
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