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|part of speech:
||a person or thing that came before another; ancestor; predecessor.
The new governor is smarter than her forerunner.The phonograph was a forerunner of the CD player.
- similar words:
- antecedent, forefather
||something that signals or gives notice of what is to come; omen.
Dark clouds and high winds are often forerunners of a storm.
- omen, sign