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Meaning of 'forerunner' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Forerunner [ n.]
- A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever.
- A predecessor; an ancestor.
- A piece of rag terminating the log line.

Meaning of 'forerunner' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . forerunner [ n]
Meaning (1):
- anything that precedes something similar in time
Example in sentence:
  • phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience

Nearby Words:

for for- fora forage foraged forager foraging foralite foramen foramina

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