début
Initial public performance
A début is a first public appearance or performance—an actor's début on Broadway, an album's début on the charts.
The word extends to any notable first: She made her début as a novelist at forty.
As a verb, to début is to make such an appearance: The show débuts next fall.
The spelling without accents (debut) is now standard in American English.
Position number one
- inauguralFirst in office
- maidenUnmarried young woman
- openingGap or start
- introductionPreliminary section or presentation
unveiling · bow · entrance · breakthrough · emergence · reveal · presentation · launch
Sudden important advance
- discoveryAct of finding something
- newcomerRecent arrival somewhere
- ingenueArtless young woman
- prodigyGifted youth with rare talent
wunderkind · talent · audition · casting · agent · contract · rookie · freshman
Public declaration of identity
- cotillionFormal society dance event
- ballSpherical plaything or gala
- societyOrganized communal human existence
- presentationFormal display to viewers
finishing-school · escort · waltz · gown · tiara · curtsy · season · aristocracy
first
Position number one
introduction · unveiling · bow · entrance · breakthrough · emergence · reveal · presentation · launch · kickoff
breakthrough
Sudden important advance
prodigy · wunderkind · talent · audition · casting · agent · contract · rookie · freshman · novice
coming-out
Public declaration of identity
- cotillionFormal society dance event
- ballSpherical plaything or gala
- societyOrganized communal human existence
presentation · finishing-school · escort · waltz · gown · tiara · curtsy · season · aristocracy · elite
débutfarewell
Leave-taking expression
finale · swan song · final performance · retirement · last performance
debutante, debutantes, debutant, debutants, débuted, débuting, débuts