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overture s
Nounoverture has 3 senses
overture - orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio --1is a kind ofmusic
preliminary, overture, prelude - something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows; "training is a necessary preliminary to employment"; "drinks were the overture to dinner" --2is a kind oforigin, origination, inception