All overture synonyms

noun overture

• importunity — the state or quality of being importunate; persistence in solicitation.
• opening — an open or clear space.
• adjuration — a solemn charge or command
• interpolation — extrapolation
• curtain-raiser — A curtain-raiser is an event, especially a sporting event or a performance, that takes place before a more important one, or starts off a series of events.
• appeal — If you appeal to someone to do something, you make a serious and urgent request to them.
• hornbook — a leaf or page containing the alphabet, religious materials, etc., covered with a sheet of transparent horn and fixed in a frame with a handle, formerly used in teaching children to read.
• intro — an introduction.
• imploration — to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy; beseech; entreat: They implored him to go.
• exordium — The beginning or introductory part, especially of a discourse or treatise.
• lead-in — something that leads in or introduces; introduction; opening.
• big idea — any plan or proposal that is grandiose, impractical, and usually unsolicited: You're always coming around here with your big ideas.
• introduction — the act of introducing or the state of being introduced.
• knockdown — capable of knocking something down; overwhelming; irresistible: a knockdown blow.
• brain child — a product of one's creative work or thought.
• approach — When you approach something, you get closer to it.
• invitation — the act of inviting.
• offer — to present for acceptance or rejection; proffer: He offered me a cigarette.
• foreword — a short introductory statement in a published work, as a book, especially when written by someone other than the author.
• feeler — a person or thing that feels.