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prequel

[pree-kwuhl]

noun

  1. a literary, dramatic, or filmic work that prefigures a later work, as by portraying the same characters at a younger age.



prequel

/ ˈːə /

noun

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

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of prequel1

First recorded in 1970–75; pre- + (se)quel
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of prequel1

C20: from pre- + ( se ) quel
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Sounds like the studio has another spinoff prequel in mind: “John Wick: The First Crusade.”

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It is the second prequel to the original “Hunger Games” series, following “The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.”

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Now, in anticipation of the series’ eighth and final season, which will premiere sometime this year or next, “Blood of My Blood” offers a prequel.

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Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, Twain grew up in the slaveholding community of Hannibal, Mo., a town he would immortalize in “Huckleberry Finn” and its prequel, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.”

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Dame Pippa said the prequel series and film project were being made partly for a "new, younger generation who have also fallen in love with our characters and the challenges they face."

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