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• n  a preliminary introduction to a statute or constitution (usually explaining its purpose)
• v  make a preliminary introduction, usually to a formal document

• The superintendent of schools, Richard Nilsen, will enter the classroom to read a three-paragraph statement mandated by the local school board as a cautionary preamble to the study .
• When Valry Giscard d'Estaing unveiled his long-awaited preamble to the long-awaited draft, there were shout-outs to ancient Greek, Roman, and Enlightenment thinkers but not .
• Then the preamble hits heavy going with a phrase the Chileans insisted on, poetry or no poetry: ".

News & Articles

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• Letter: Driver’s licenses are for state’s citizens
  The Preamble to our Constitution starts with “We the People,”
  June 16, 2013 - The Norwich Bulletin
• 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup Preview
  A quick look at what to expect for the tournament. The 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup will kick-off June 15, as a preamble of what we can expect to see in next year’s World Cup. Six out of the 12 proposed stadiums for the World Cup will be used for the tournament including the legendary
  June 14, 2013 - The Prospector
• Flag Day Kids Camp at Jackson Park
  Come meet George Washington and Betsy Ross, learn and experience patriotic music, the meaning and history of American flag and how to honor it, how to properly raise and lower the flag, what the preamble to the constitution is, contribute to making a giant group flag, and play a fun game of capture the flag.
  June 14, 2013 - Hood River News

Quotes

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• Peter Costello in NEWS.com.au
  Remember he said - and I thought this was extraordinary - he had to stay to put a new preamble in the Constitutionto recognise indigenous Australians, Mr Costello said. "We had already tried to put a new preamble in the Constitution - it...
• Sergey Lavrov in The Moscow Times
  There is a general understanding on the preamble of the document,Lavrov said in Sochi after talks between the two country's leaders and President Dmitry Medvedev, Interfax reported.
• Hugh Grant in Los Angeles Times
  Romantic comedies have become very difficult to do since the sexual revolution in the '60s,agrees Grant. "Are they going to shag? If they don't do it, it's weird, and once they do, all that delicious preamble : what's that delicious word?"