forebook

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English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From fore- +‎ book.

Noun[edit]

forebook (plural forebooks)

  1. A prelude to a book or series of books; a preface.
    • 2001, Martin McQuillan, Deconstruction:
      Could it be that for the writer everything happens in a forebook whose end he cannot see, whose end is in his book?
    • 2010, Julie N. Zimmerman, Olaf F. Larson, Opening Windows Onto Hidden Lives:
      At Wisconsin, Galpin also wrote a "forebook" to what was to be an eight-book series on rural life [...]
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