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English to English noun
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orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio |  | source: wordnet30
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something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows | | Example: training is a necessary preliminary to employment
drinks were the overture to dinner
source: wordnet30
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a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others | | Example: she rejected his advances
source: wordnet30 verb
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To make an overture to; as, to overture a religious body on some subject. | | source: webster1913
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