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front matter
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun front matter has 1 sense
- front matter(n = noun.communication) prelims - written matter preceding the main text of a book; Array is a kind of matter
THESAURUS
front matter
acknowledgments, anteriority, article, avant-propos, back, back matter, bastard title, bibliography, bold front, book, brave face, brave front, breakthrough, catch line, catchword, chapter, clause, colophon, contents, contents page, copyright page, dedication, display, endleaf, endpaper, endsheet, errata, exordium, facade, face, facet, facia, fascicle, flyleaf, folio, fore, fore edge, forefront, foreground, forehand, foreland, forepart, forequarter, foreside, foreword, front, front elevation, front man, front page, front view, frontage, frontal, frontier, frontispiece, gathering, half-title page, head, heading, imprint, index, innovation, inscription, introduction, lap, leaf, leap, makeup, number, obverse, overture, page, paragraph, passage, phrase, postulate, preamble, preface, prefix, prefixture, preliminaries, preliminary, prelude, premise, presupposition, priority, proem, prolegomena, prolegomenon, prolepsis, prologue, proscenium, protasis, recto, reverso, running title, section, sentence, sheet, signature, subtitle, table of contents, tail, text, title, title page, trim size, type page, verse, verso, voluntary, window dressing
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