forerunner

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[edit] Etymology

fore + runner

[edit] Noun

Singular
forerunner

Plural
forerunners

forerunner (plural forerunners)

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

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