Definition of Foreronner
Fore*run"ner (?), n. 1.
A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of
others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as,
the forerunner of a fever.
Whither the forerunner in for us entered, even
Jesus. Heb. vi. 20.
My elder brothers, my forerunners,
came. Dryden.
2. A predecessor; an ancestor. [Obs.]
Shak.
3. (Naut.) A piece of rag terminating
the log line.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- a runner at the front or ahead
- a precursor or harbinger, a warning ahead
- a forebear, an ancestor, a predecessor
- (philately) a postage stamp used in the time before a region or area issues stamps of its own
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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