Thesaurus: overture

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1. An opening or aperture; a recess; a recess; a chamber.
2. Disclosure; discovery; revelation.
3. A proposal; an offer; a proposition formally submitted for consideration, acceptance, or rejection.
4. A composition, for a full orchestra, designed as an introduction to an oratorio, opera, or ballet, or as an independent piece; -- called in the latter case a concert overture.
5. v. t. To make an overture to; as, to overture a religious body on some subject.
6. n. orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio
7. n. something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows
8. n. a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
9. 1. An opening or aperture; a recess; a recess; a chamber. [Obs.] Spenser. "The cave's inmost overture." Chapman. 2. Disclosure; discovery; revelation. [Obs.] It was he That made the overture of thy treasons to us. Shak. 3. A proposal; an offer; a proposition formally submitted for consideration, acceptance, or rejection. "The great overture of the gospel." Barrow. 4. (Mus.) A composition, for a full orchestra, designed as an introduction to an oratorio, opera, or ballet, or as an independent piece; -- called in the latter case a concert overture. To make an overture to; as, to overture a religious body on some subject.
10. A composition, for a full orchestra, designed as anintroduction to an oratorio, opera, or ballet, or as an independentpiece; -- called in the latter case a concert overture.
11. n:100 n. orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio n. a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others