forerunner
Misollar
- Alchemy was the forerunner of modern chemistry.
- The crocus is a forerunner of spring.
- Emma Goldman is considered a forerunner of anarchist feminism.
- This street is named after the Cheka, the forerunner of the KGB.
ot noun
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A forebear, an ancestor, a predecessor.
Bakelite is a forerunner of today's plastics.
- A runner at the front or ahead.
- By extension, a non-competitor who leads out the competitors on to the circuit, or who runs/rides the course prior to competitor trials, usually testing or checking the way.
- A precursor or harbinger, a warning ahead.
Manbalar: Wiktionary (Free Dictionary API orqali), Datamuse, Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), MyMemory.