Forerunner

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One that precedes, as in time; a predecessor.
  • n. An ancestor; a forebear.
  • n. One that comes before and indicates the approach of another; a harbinger.
  • n. A warning sign or symptom.
  • n. Sports One who skis the course before the beginning of a race.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a runner at the front or ahead
  • n. a precursor or harbinger, a warning ahead
  • n. a forebear, an ancestor, a predecessor
  • n. a postage stamp used in the time before a region or area issues stamps of its own
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic.
  • n. A predecessor; an ancestor.
  • n. A piece of rag terminating the log line.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who or that which foreruns; an annunciator; a harbinger: as, John the Baptist was the forerunner of Christ.
  • n. An ancestor or predecessor.
  • n. A prognostic; a premonitory token; a sign foreshowing something to follow: as, popular tumults are the forerunners of revolution.
  • n. Nautical, a piece of bunting or other material inserted in a log-line to mark the point at which the glass must be turned.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a person who goes before or announces the coming of another
  • n. something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone
  • n. anything that precedes something similar in time
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    indicant    indication    temporal relation   
    Cross Reference
    ancestor   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    harbinger    prognostic    predecessor    ancestor   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    harbinger    presentiment    precursor    verge    portent    aftermath   
     
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