Thesaurus:front matter

Thesaurus

front matter

English

Noun

Sense: within a book—all content preceding the main text or work itself

Synonyms

• front matter
• prelims

Antonyms

• back matter    [⇒ thesaurus]
• body matter    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hypernyms

• precursor    [⇒ thesaurus]

Holonyms

• book    [⇒ thesaurus]

Meronyms

• acknowledgment
• bastard title
• colophon
• dedication
• dramatis personae
• epigraph
• foreword    [⇒ thesaurus]
• frontispiece
• half title
• table of contents
• title page

Further reading

• “64. precursor” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “front matter” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.