front matter

See also: frontmatter and front-matter

English

Alternative forms

• frontmatter
• front-matter

Noun

front matter (uncountable)

1. Within a book, all preliminary content preceding the main text.

   Synonyms: prelims; see also Thesaurus:front matter

   Antonyms: back matter, end matter

   Meronyms: half title, title page, table of contents, preface, foreword, introduction, prologue

   Coordinate terms: body matter, body text

Translations

parts of a book that appear before the text

• Dutch: voorwerk (nl) n, preliminaria pl
• Italian: preliminari (it) m pl
• Portuguese: matéria pré-textual f, elementos pré-textuais m pl, pré-texto m