Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that precedes, as in time; a predecessor.
- noun An ancestor; a forebear.
- noun One that comes before and indicates the approach of another; a harbinger.
- noun A warning sign or symptom.
- noun One who skis a course before the beginning of a race.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which foreruns; an annunciator; a harbinger: as, John the Baptist was the forerunner of Christ.
- noun An ancestor or predecessor.
- noun A prognostic; a premonitory token; a sign foreshowing something to follow: as, popular tumults are the forerunners of revolution.
- noun Nautical, a piece of bunting or other material inserted in a log-line to mark the point at which the glass must be turned.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic.
- noun obsolete A predecessor; an ancestor.
- noun (Naut.) A piece of rag terminating the log line.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a runner at the front or ahead
- noun a
precursor orharbinger , a warning ahead - noun a
forebear , anancestor , apredecessor - noun philately a postage stamp used in the time before a region or area issues stamps of its own
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who goes before or announces the coming of another
- noun something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone
- noun anything that precedes something similar in time
Etymologies
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Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made a high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
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“Red Eyebrows”, a contemporary agrarian rebel group sometimes described as the forerunner of secret societies and underworld gangs such as the Triads.
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“Red Eyebrows”, a contemporary agrarian rebel group sometimes described as the forerunner of secret societies and underworld gangs such as the Triads.
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The Iron Heel by Jack London (1907) has been described as a forerunner to the “soft” science fiction of the 1960s and 70s.
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“Red Eyebrows”, a contemporary agrarian rebel group sometimes described as the forerunner of secret societies and underworld gangs such as the Triads.
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A forerunner is the Gold Class Cinema that Village Roadshow opened in Australia in 2000.
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A forerunner is the Gold Class Cinema that Village Roadshow opened in Australia in 2000.
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A forerunner is the Gold Class Cinema that Village Roadshow opened in Australia in 2000.
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