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pre·quel

(prē′kwəl)

A literary, dramatic, or cinematic work whose narrative takes place before that of a preexisting work in the same series.

[pre- + (se)quel.]

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

prequel

(ˈpriːkwəl)

(Film) a film or book about an earlier stage of a story or a character's life, released or published because the later part of it has already been successful

[C20: from pre- + (se)quel]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

pre•quel

(ˈpri kwəl)

n.

a sequel to a film, play, or piece of fiction that prefigures the original, as by portraying the same characters at a younger age.

[1970–75; pre- + (se) quel]

Translations

precuela protosecuela

prequel

prequel

[ˈpriːkwəl] n → préquel m, préquelle f

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