Lead and Prologue

Lead

Lead noun - The person who has the most important role in a play, movie, or TV show.

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Prologue and lead are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Prologue" instead a noun "Lead".

Nearby Words: leading, leader, leaden, leadership, leaded

Prologue noun - A performance, activity, or event that precedes and sets the stage for the main event.

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Lead and prologue are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Lead" instead a noun "Prologue".

Nearby Word: prolog

nice	nice lead	nice prologue
original	original lead	original prologue
true	true lead	true prologue
actual	actual lead	actual prologue
Other adjectives: entire, real, great, little, new, possible, past, comic.

The anime follows suit with its first episode (basically a shortened version of the first chapter without Puck), then ends in a way that could not possibly lead to said prologue.

Source: Action Prologue
In a prologue flashback, lead character Dade Murphy (Jonny Lee Miller), age eleven, is found guilty of crashing 1,507 computers.

Source: Film / Hackers
Finally, the upper halls of Peach's Castle, which are explorable in the game's prologue, lead to Bowser himself.

Source: Video Game / Paper Mario 64

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