Crossword-Solution: OVERTURE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Overture | - | An opening or aperture; a recess; a recess; a chamber. |
| Overture | - | Disclosure; discovery; revelation. |
| Overture | - | A proposal; an offer; a proposition formally submitted for consideration, acceptance, or rejection. |
| Overture | - | 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. |
| Overture | v. t. | To make an overture to; as, to overture a religious body on some subject. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OVERTURE | anagram | TROUVERE |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with OVERTURE (5)
Vangard, to Right and Left the Front unfould; That all may see who hate us, how we seek Peace and composure, and with open brest Stand readie to receive them, if they like Our overture, and turn not back perverse; But that I doubt, however witness Heaven, Heav’n witness thou anon, while we discharge Freely our part: yee who appointed stand Do as you have in charge, and briefly touch What we propound, and loud that all may hear.
When the lights went down and the violins began the overture, the place looked larger than ever; a great pit, shadowy and solemn.
They chatted incessantly: about the things around them; their amusing adventure out in the water—it had again assumed its entertaining aspect; about the wind, the trees, the people who had gone to the _Chênière;_ about the children playing croquet under the oaks, and the Farival twins, who were now performing the overture to “The Poet and the Peasant.” Robert talked a good deal about himself.
Nay, every libertine will think he has a right to insult her with his licentious passion; and should the unhappy creature shrink from the insolent overture, he will sneeringly taunt her with pretence of modesty.
And yet here she was throwing herself back into Roderick’s arms at his lightest overture, and playing with his own half fearful, half shameful hopes! Rowland declared to himself that his position was essentially detestable, and that all the philosophy he could bring to bear upon it would make it neither honorable nor comfortable.
Quotes with OVERTURE (3)
Come into my world. I will show you the phenomenon that Stendhal experienced. I will help you feel the cascading arpeggios of Wagner's overture. I will dance to Doga’s waltzes with you. A day spent without appreciating the beauty surrounding us is a waste. Let me appreciate you
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
Workshop Hermeticism, fiction for which the highest praise involves the words 'competent,' 'finished,' 'problem-free,' fiction over which Writing-Program pre- and proscriptions loom with the enclosing force of horizons: no character without Freudian trauma in accessible past, without near-diagnostic physical description; no image undissolved into regulation Updikean metaphor; no overture without a dramatized scene to 'show' what's 'told'; no denouement prior to an epiphany wh…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Custom, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 26 times in crossword archives (1952–2023).