Dictionary Entry
forerunner
forerunner is a 10-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
A predecessor; an ancestor.
- 3noun
A piece of rag terminating the log line.
- 4noun
something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone
- 5noun
a person who goes before or announces the coming of another
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- 6noun
anything that precedes something similar in time
"phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience"
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