Definition of Overture

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Overture

An opening or aperture; a recess; a recess; a chamber.

Disclosure; discovery; revelation.

A proposal; an offer; a proposition formally submitted for consideration, acceptance, or rejection.

A composition, for a full orchestra, designed as an introduction to an oratorio, opera, or ballet, or as an independent piece; -- called in the latter case a concert overture.

To make an overture to; as, to overture a religious body on some subject.

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Overture Quotations

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
Billy Connolly

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
Dan Rather

The beginning of Book Three is the last one that I drew, where V's conducting the 1812 overture.
David Lloyd

Overture Translations

overture in Dutch is ouverture
overture in Finnish is alkusoitto

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