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precursor
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of PRECURSOR
1
one that announces or indicates the later arrival of another <18th-century lyric poets like Robert Burns were precursors of the Romantics>
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 <a precursor of the modern eggplant>
Synonyms antecedent, archetype, daddy, foregoer, forerunner, granddaddy (also grandaddy), precursor, predecessor, prototype
Antonyms descendant (also descendent)
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