Definition of prequel
: a work (such as a novel or a play) whose story precedes that of an earlier work
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Examples of prequel in a Sentence
His next film will be a prequel to last year's hit movie.
Recent Examples of prequel from the Web
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The prequels, like it or not, are now an important part of the franchise's future.
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While the original trilogy and prequels were very much Luke and Anakin Skywalker’s movies, respectively, this is the first Star Wars film explicitly centering on a single character.
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The Captain Marvel stand-alone, which is a prequel to the whole MCU, will be released in March 2019, just months before the currently-untitled Avengers 4 film.
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, released in 2016, is a tight prequel to A New Hope, intended to tide fans over until last year's Episode VIII: The Last Jedi.
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Starting in the 80s, Asimov began to revisit the character of Seldon in a series of prequels.
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Sure, part of the point of a prequel is to reveal hidden depths to the stories and characters everyone is already familiar with, but wasn’t part of the charm of Han Solo his lack of depth…?
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A decade later, the cast of Mamma Mia! is back for an encore that serves as a combination prequel/sequel.
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There’s also Captain Marvel, a 90s-set prequel which will introduce Larson’s new superhero character.
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Origin and Etymology of prequel
pre- + -quel (as in sequel)
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Definition of prequel for English Language Learners
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: a movie, book, etc., that tells the part of a story that happened before the story in another movie, book, etc.
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