Forerunner definition

Forerunner

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WordNet

(1) An indication of the approach of something or someone

(2) A person who goes before or announces the coming of another

(3) Anything that precedes something similar in time

"Phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience"

WiktionaryText

a runner at the front or ahead
a precursor or harbinger, a warning ahead
a forebear, an ancestor, a predecessor
a postage stamp used in the time before a region or area issues stamps of its own