forerunner

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Noun

forerunner (plural forerunners)

1. A runner at the front or ahead.
2. (sport) By extension, a non-competitor who leads out the competitors on to the circuit, or who runs/rides the course prior to competitor trials, usually testing or checking the way.
3. A precursor or harbinger, a warning ahead.
4. A forebear, an ancestor, a predecessor.

   Bakelite is a forerunner of today's plastics.

5. (philately) A postage stamp used in the time before a region or area issues stamps of its own.

Translations

• German: Vornewegläufer, Frontläufer

Translations

• German: Vorbote, Vorzeichen, Vorläufer, Wegbereiter, Vorreiter
• Portuguese: precursor
• Russian: предше́ственник
• Spanish: precursor

Translations

• German: Vorfahre, Vorgänger

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