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forerunner
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of FORERUNNER
1
one that announces or indicates the later arrival of another <the return of the swallows is traditionally regarded as a forerunner of spring>
Related Words foreboder, foreshadower, foretaste, forewarning; advertiser, announcer, blazoner, crier, proclaimer; courier, messenger, runner; augury, auspice, boding, foreboding, foreshadowing, omen, portent, prefiguring, presage; mark, sign, symptom; bellwether
2
something belonging to an earlier time from which something else was later developed <enjoyed the demonstration of the simple hand loom that was the forerunner of today's computer-controlled looms>
Synonyms antecedent, archetype, daddy, foregoer, forerunner, granddaddy (also grandaddy), precursor, predecessor, prototype
Antonyms descendant (also descendent)
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