"exord" meaning in All languages combined

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "exordium"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin exordium",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin exordium.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "exords",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "exord (plural exords)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English undefined derivations",
          "parents": [
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Literature",
          "orig": "en:Literature",
          "parents": [
            "Culture",
            "Entertainment",
            "Writing",
            "Society",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Communication",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1830, “Ferrario -- On Chivalry and Romance and Italian Romantic Poetry”, in Foreign Quarterly Review, volume VI, number XIII, page 387",
          "text": "One peculiarity of Bello is his having first broken through the custom of religious invocations at the heads of his cantos, in place of which he substituted poetical exords, or reflections on the events of his narrative, or on circumstances connected with them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A preface or prefatory passage"
      ],
      "id": "en-exord-en-noun-XzyNITrq",
      "links": [
        [
          "literature",
          "literature"
        ],
        [
          "preface",
          "preface"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literature) A preface or prefatory passage"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "preface"
        },
        {
          "word": "proem"
        },
        {
          "word": "exordium"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "literature",
        "media",
        "publishing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "exord"
}

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "exordium"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin exordium",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin exordium.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "exords",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "exord (plural exords)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        "English countable nouns",
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        "English lemmas",
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        "English terms derived from Latin",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English undefined derivations",
        "en:Literature"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1830, “Ferrario -- On Chivalry and Romance and Italian Romantic Poetry”, in Foreign Quarterly Review, volume VI, number XIII, page 387",
          "text": "One peculiarity of Bello is his having first broken through the custom of religious invocations at the heads of his cantos, in place of which he substituted poetical exords, or reflections on the events of his narrative, or on circumstances connected with them.",
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        }
      ],
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        "A preface or prefatory passage"
      ],
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        [
          "literature",
          "literature"
        ],
        [
          "preface",
          "preface"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literature) A preface or prefatory passage"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "literature",
        "media",
        "publishing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "preface"
    },
    {
      "word": "proem"
    },
    {
      "word": "exordium"
    }
  ],
  "word": "exord"
}