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foreword

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Noun — A short piece at the start of a book, often written by someone other than the author, that introduces the work.

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Morphologically this is fore- plus word. It is a calque of German Vorwort, which is itself a calque of Latin praefatio ("preface"). It is cognate with German Low German Vörwoord ("foreword"), Dutch voorwoord ("foreword"), West Frisian foarwurd ("foreword"), Danish forord ("preface; proviso") and Swedish förord ("forewo...

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