Thesaurus: forerunner

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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.
2. n. A predecessor; an ancestor.
3. n. A piece of rag terminating the log line.
4. n. a person who goes before or announces the coming of another
5. n. something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone
6. n. anything that precedes something similar in time
7. 1. 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. Whither the forerunner in for us entered, even Jesus. Heb. vi. 20. My elder brothers, my forerunners, came. Dryden. 2. A predecessor; an ancestor. [Obs.] Shak. 3. (Naut.) A piece of rag terminating the log line.
8. n:100 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