INTRODUCTION


Meaning of INTRODUCTION in English

(~s)

1.

The ~ to a book or talk is the part that comes at the beginning and tells you what the rest of the book or talk is about.

Ellen Malos, in her ~ to ‘The Politics of Housework’, provides a summary of the debates.

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2.

If you refer to a book as an ~ to a particular subject, you mean that it explains the basic facts about that subject.

On balance, the book is a friendly, down-to-earth ~ to physics.

N-COUNT: usu N to n, oft in names

3.

see also introduce

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