Crossword clues for forerunner
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forerunner \Fore*run"ner\, n.
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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. A predecessor; an ancestor. [Obs.]
--Shak.(Naut.) A piece of rag terminating the log line.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 a runner at the front or ahead 2 (context sport English) 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 5 (context philately English) a postage stamp used in the time before a region or area issues stamps of its own 6 something that introduces a part of the properties offered by some later thing.
WordNet
n. anything that precedes something similar in time; "phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience" [syn: antecedent]
a person who goes before or announces the coming of another [syn: precursor]
an indication of the approach of something or someone [syn: harbinger, herald, precursor]
Wikipedia
The Forerunner was a monthly magazine produced by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (best known as the writer of The Yellow Wallpaper), from 1909 through 1916. During that time, she wrote all of every issue—editorials, critical articles, book reviews, essays, poems, stories, and six serialized novels. The magazine was based in New York City.
In philately, a forerunner is a postage stamp used before a region or territory issued stamps of its own. The term also includes stamps of the political predecessors of a country. For instance stamps of the state of Western Australia are forerunners of Australia today and stamps of the British Mandate for Palestine are forerunners of modern Israel.
Forerunner is the third album by the Eastern- Canadian Celtic band The Cottars.
Forerunner may refer to:
Forerunner is a fictional character published by DC Comics. She first appeared in Countdown #46 (August 2007), and was created by Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray and Jesus Saiz.
Usage examples of "forerunner".
They were the forerunners of the Asura army, heading the invasion and leading the rest of the inhumans into the city.
Paris after the destruction of the Bastile, a step which she had always regarded as the forerunner and cause of some of the most irremediable encroachments of the Revolutionists.
They took the center lane, the lane of the privileged, straight down Mira Prospekt, around the square past the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, who, under Lenin himself, headed the Cheka, the forerunner of the KGB.
In appearance they resembled the more vicious types of dryopithecus, believed by scientists to have been the forerunners of all anthropoids.
It is obviously advantageous for an animal to receive more detailed information about where it is going to than about where it has come from, and it is therefore not surprising that as well as the mouth at the front end of the planaria there is a concentration of sense organs, such as light-sensitive eyepits, and to process the information arriving from these sense organs there is a group of ganglia concentrated in the head - forming at last the forerunners of real brains.
Patrick, the forerunner of Fenianism and --Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood, 87.
As thou livest, know I in my heart that the earthquake that sixteen years ago shook this city to its solid base, was but the forerunner of more deadly doom.
I can see my own moves, from chemistry to biochemistry, from bio- to neurochemistry, as a forerunner to the arrival of the new generations of neurobiologists and neuroscientists.
For a while he lay wondering whether maybe the Forerunners had gone the way of Earth and that was why they were no longer around and what they might have become by now.
Did the Forerunners predict it, way back when they or their machines were scouting this neighborhood?
Though if the sun was lonesome, I thought the Forerunners might have orbited something of their own anyhow.
No, Lissa thought, the Forerunners would have means more subtle than an energy blast.
We just told that we had certain interesting clues to the Forerunners, which the Susaians might like to discuss with us confidentially.
Earth probably has things to tell that the Forerunners find worth hearing, as well as vice versa.
How could the Forerunners know exactly what the planet would be like millions of years in the future?