Other forms: prologues
A prologue is an introduction placed before the main work. Read the prologue, a short prologue, the prologue to the play.
In a novel it is often a scene from another time that the story will catch up with. In Greek drama the prologue was spoken by one actor to set the scene before the chorus entered.
1nounprologueAn introduction placed before the main work.
“The play opens with a short prologue spoken by a single actor.”
prologue is an introduction.
Greek prologos is pro-, before, plus logos, word or speech.
Proto-Indo-European
*per-
Ancient Greek
πρόλογος
Latin
prologus
Old French
prologue
Middle English
prologue
English, today
prologue
From Middle English prologue, prologe, from Old French prologue, from Latin prologus, from Ancient Greek πρόλογος. Equivalent to pro- + -logue.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA