forerunner
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6.2
- noun
- /ˈfɔːrˌrʌnər/
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precursor
- The invention of the steam engine was a major forerunner to the Industrial Revolution.
- an early forerunner
- a modern forerunner
- perhaps a forerunner
Commonplace book is the the analogue forerunner of what I'm trying to do.
- Commonplace book is the the analogue forerunner of what I'm trying to do.
- It's the ruins we inhabit and the outlook is violence the forerunner of philosophical thinking, political thinking, for instance.
Examples
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Josef Hasenfuss refers to him as the "forerunner of the Second Vatican Council."
Academic text (1993) -
The Bankruptcy Act was also the forerunner of the Code's avoidance action provisions.
Academic text (2017) -
Now today is just sort of the the pre, the forerunner to what happens on Friday.
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But it can still be argued that the former was a significant forerunner of the latter.
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And so a really unique thing about Street Fighter is that in some ways this was the forerunner to the modern console title.
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This instillation, by the way, is the forerunner of our modern day nuclear power plant, like the one two miles down the coast here.
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This is total internal reflection of light and this was the forerunner to the optical fibre.
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The Chautauqua school was a forerunner of a variety of in-service education.
Academic text (1990) -
Newman, we may conclude, was a forerunner, standing on the threshold of a new ecumenical age.
Academic text (1990) -
From this foothold grew the forerunner of the Federal Reserve System, the modern centralized banking cartel that controls the issuing of all American currency.
Synonyms
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6.1
A person or thing that announces the coming of something important
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7.2
A person, thing, or event that comes before and signals what will follow
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8.7
A sign that something will happen soon, like dark clouds before a storm
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4.9
Something that comes before and points to what comes next
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8.4
A person or thing that shows future trends
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7.3
An event or situation that happened before something and helped cause it
Something that comes before and shows what will happen next
A person or thing that came before another and influenced it
Antonyms
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Etymology
Forerunner comes from fore- meaning 'before' and runner meaning 'one who runs ahead'. So a forerunner is someone or something that comes first to warn or prepare others, like a messenger or the wind that comes before a storm.