1) Beginning 2) Book design 3) Book introduction 4) Exclusively Saxon word 5) Exclusively Anglo word 6) Front-matter section 7) Introduction 8) Opening 9) Overture 10) Part of a novel 11) Preamble 12) Preface 13) Prelude 14) Prologue 15) Prolusion 16) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins 17) Word of purely Anglo origin 1) Intro 2) Introduction 3) Preamble 4) Preface 5) Prolusion 
• (n.) A preface.
Fore'word` noun A preface. Furnvall. 
[n] - a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book
Hungarian term for red (dark red) in connection with wine. Vörösbor means red wine and Fehérbor white wine. See also under Hungary.
preface noun a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book
a short introductory statement in a published work, as a book, esp. when written by someone other than the author. Cf. afterword.
a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book