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# frontispiece

«frontispiece» in Mova's school dictionary: **A picture facing the title page at the front of an old book** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (frontispieces)

### meaning for a pupil

A picture facing the title page at the front of an old book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frontispiece/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old books, the picture that comes just before the title page; in stories a writer describes the one in a book

### examples

- The frontispiece is a picture of a ship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frontispiece/#x1)
- The artist drew the frontispiece for the book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frontispiece/#x2)
- The frontispiece shows the Sea-Maiden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frontispiece/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «frontispiece» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frontispiece/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.