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. Source: opted

2. n. A predecessor; an ancestor. Source: opted

3. n. A piece of rag terminating the log line. Source: opted

4. n. a person who goes before or announces the coming of another Source: wordnet

5. n. something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone Source: wordnet

6. n. anything that precedes something similar in time Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

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 Source: ecdict

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