Introductory

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Introductory \In`tro*duc"to*ry\, a. [L. itroductorius: cf. F.
     introductoire.]
     Serving to introduce something else; leading to the main
     subject or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductory
     proceedings; an introductory discourse.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  introductory
       adj 1: serving to open or begin; "began the slide show with some
              introductory remarks"
       2: serving as a base or starting point; "a basic course in
          Russian"; "basic training for raw recruits"; "a set of
          basic tools"; "an introductory art course" [syn: {basic}]
       3: serving as an introduction or preface [syn: {prefatorial}, {prefatory}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  83 Moby Thesaurus words for "introductory":
     abecedarian, aboriginal, antenatal, autochthonous, autodidactic,
     baptismal, basic, beginning, budding, coeducational, creative,
     cultural, didactic, disciplinary, edifying, educating, educational,
     educative, elemental, elementary, embryonic, enlightening,
     exhortatory, fetal, first, formative, foundational, fundamental,
     gestatory, homiletic, hortatory, illuminating, in embryo,
     in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate,
     inchoative, incipient, incunabular, inductive, infant, infantile,
     informative, initial, initiative, initiatory, instructive,
     introductive, inventive, lecturing, nascent, natal, opening,
     original, parturient, postnatal, preaching, preceptive, prefatory,
     pregnant, preliminary, preludial, prelusive, prenatal, preparative,
     preparatory, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive,
     primogenial, procreative, proemial, propaedeutic, rudimental,
     rudimentary, self-teaching, teaching, tuitionary, ur