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forerunnersnounpl. of forerunner one that announces or indicates the later arrival of anotherthe return of the swallows is traditionally regarded as a forerunner of spring angels, foregoers, harbingers, heralds, outriders, precursors foreboders, foreshadowers, foretastes, forewarningsadvertisers, announcers, blazoners, criers, proclaimerscouriers, messengers, runnersauguries, auspices, bodings, forebodings, foreshadowings, omens, portents, presagesmarks, signs, symptomsbellwethers something belonging to an earlier time from which something else was later developedenjoyed the demonstration of the simple hand loom that was the forerunner of today's computer-controlled looms ancestors, antecedents, archetypes, daddies, foregoers, granddaddies(also grandaddies), precursors, predecessors, prototypes models, originalsoriginators, siresfathers, mothers descendants(also descendents) by-products, derivatives, offshoots, outgrowths, spin-offsdaughters, sons |