Noun overture has 3 senses
- overture - orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio
--1 is a kind of music
- 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"
--2 is a kind of origin, origination, inception
- overture, advance, approach, feeler - a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others; "she rejected his advances"
--3 is a kind of suggestion, proposition, proffer
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