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

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. A predecessor; an ancestor.
3. noun. A piece of rag terminating the log line.
4. noun. something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone

   Synonyms: harbinger, herald, precursor, predecessor

5. noun. a person who goes before or announces the coming of another

   Synonyms: precursor

6. noun. anything that precedes something similar in time

   "phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience"

   Synonyms: antecedent

Synonyms

harbinger, herald, precursor, predecessor, antecedent

Common word forms

forerunners

Words from these letters

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