'Forerunner' definitions:
Definition of 'forerunner'
(from WordNet)
noun
A person who goes before or announces the coming of another [syn: precursor, forerunner]
noun
Something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone [syn: harbinger, forerunner, predecessor, herald, precursor]
noun
Anything that precedes something similar in time; "phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience" [syn: antecedent, forerunner]
Definition of 'Forerunner'
From: GCIDE
- Forerunner \Fore*run"ner\, n.
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Whither the forerunner in for us entered, even Jesus. --Heb. vi. 20. [1913 Webster]
- My elder brothers, my forerunners, came. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A predecessor; an ancestor. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Naut.) A piece of rag terminating the log line. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'forerunner'
From: Easton
- Forerunner John the Baptist went before our Lord in this character (Mark 1:2, 3). Christ so called (Heb. 6:20) as entering before his people into the holy place as their head and guide.
Synonyms of 'forerunner'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advertisement,
- advertiser,
- ancestor,
- announcement,
- announcer,
- antecedent,
- augury,
- author,
- avant-garde,
- bell cow,
- bell mare,
- bellwether,
- born leader,
- buccinator,
- buccinator novi temporis,
- bushwhacker,
- charismatic leader,
- choirmaster,
- choragus,
- coach,
- conductor,
- coryphaeus,
- duce,
- envoy,
- evangel,
- evangelist,
- example,
- exemplar,
- explorer,
- file leader,
- forebear,
- forefather,
- foregoer,
- foreshadow,
- foreshadower,
- foretoken,
- forewarning,
- front runner,
- frontiersman,
- fugleman,
- Gabriel,
- groundbreaker,
- guide,
- harbinger,
- herald,
- herald angel,
- initiator,
- innovator,
- inspired leader,
- instructor,
- lead runner,
- leader,
- leader of men,
- Mahdi,
- mark,
- mentor,
- messenger,
- messiah,
- model,
- omen,
- originator,
- outrider,
- pacemaker,
- pacesetter,
- pathfinder,
- pattern,
- pioneer,
- point,
- portent,
- precedent,
- precentor,
- precursor,
- predecessor,
- premise,
- premonition,
- premonitor,
- preparationist,
- preparator,
- preparer,
- presage,
- presager,
- progenitor,
- prognostic,
- prototype,
- ringleader,
- scout,
- sign,
- standard-bearer,
- stormy petrel,
- symphonic conductor,
- symptom,
- teacher,
- token,
- torchbearer,
- trailblazer,
- trailbreaker,
- trainer,
- vanguard,
- vaunt-courier,
- voortrekker,
- warning