introductory

3 definitions found

introductory - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

introductory - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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,
         introductory]
      3: serving as an introduction or preface [syn: introductory,
         prefatorial, prefatory]

introductory - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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