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Favouring English athlete: one came first
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forerunner
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in 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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from fore- + runner . Middle English literal rendition of Latin praecursor , used in reference to John the Baptist as the forerunner of Christ. Old English had foreboda and forerynel .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forerunner \Fore*run"ner\, n. 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. ...
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?