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Definition of Forerunner

1. Noun. A person who goes before or announces the coming of another.

2. Noun. Something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone.

3. Noun. Anything that precedes something similar in time. "Phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience"

Definition of Forerunner

1. 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.

Definition of Forerunner

1. Noun. a runner at the front or ahead ¹

2. Noun. a precursor or harbinger, a warning ahead ¹

3. Noun. a forebear, an ancestor, a predecessor ¹

4. Noun. (philately) a postage stamp used in the time before a region or area issues stamps of its own ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Forerunner

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Forerunner

forerank foreranks forereach forereached forereaches forereaching foreread forereads forerecited foreremembered

forerib forerider foreriders foreright forerun forerunner (current term) forerunners forerunning foreruns fores

foresaid foresail foresails foresaw foresay foresays foresee foreseeabilities foreseeability foreseeable

Literary usage of Forerunner

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1900)
"... MARTYRS PRINCIPLE A CRIME PUNISHABLE WITH DEATH A forerunner the Favorite God of the ... or forerunner, was a crime at Athens punishable with death. ..."

2. The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Alfred Edersheim (1883)
"THE ANNUNCIATION OF JESUS THE MESSIAH, AND THE BIRTH OF HIS forerunner. (St. Matt. i.; St. Luke i. 26-80.) FROM the Temple to Nazareth! ..."

3. A Beginner's History of Philosophy by Herbert Ernest Cushman (1911)
"Leibnitz * as the Finisher of the Renaissance and the forerunner of the Enlightenment. ... It nevertheless makes him the forerunner of the Enlightenment. ..."

4. Progressive Men, Women, and Movements of the Past Twenty-five Years by Benjamin Orange Flower (1914)
"On its philosophical side, its great forerunner, or the man who did more than any other thinker of our time to prepare the popular mind to accept the new ..."

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