preambulate

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verb

To walk before; figuratively, to precede.

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Meanings

verbpreambulate (third-person singular simple present preambulates, present participle preambulating, simple past and past participle preambulated)

present singular third person preambulates · participle present preambulating · participle past preambulated · past preambulated

  1. To walk before; figuratively, to precede.

    “Lolita, or the Confession of a White Widowed Male,” such were the two titles under which the writer of the present note received the strange pages it preambulates.

    1955 September 15, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Paris: The Olympia Press […], →OCLC

Origin

From pre- + ambulate, or from Latin praeambulo, praeambulatus.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

preambulate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/preambulate

MLA

“preambulate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/preambulate. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “preambulate,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/preambulate.

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