Forerunner
WordNet

noun


(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

Noun



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