Usually means: Precursor existing before something else.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word forerunner:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. forerunner: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. forerunner: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. forerunner: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. forerunner: Collins English Dictionary
  5. forerunner: Vocabulary.com
  6. Forerunner, forerunner: Wordnik
  7. forerunner: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. forerunner: Wiktionary
  9. forerunner: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. forerunner: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. forerunner: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Forerunner, forerunner, the forerunner: Dictionary.com
  13. forerunner: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. forerunner: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Forerunner (Dungeons & Dragons), Forerunner (Halo), Forerunner (comics), Forerunner (magazine), Forerunner, The Forerunner: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Forerunner: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. forerunner: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. forerunner: Rhymezone
  19. forerunner: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. forerunner: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. forerunner: Free Dictionary
  22. forerunner: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. forerunner: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Forerunner (disambiguation), forerunner: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Forerunner (disambiguation), forerunner: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Forerunner: Easton Bible

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. forerunner: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A runner at the front or ahead.
noun:  (sports) 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.
noun:  A precursor or harbinger, a warning ahead.
noun:  A forebear, an ancestor, a predecessor.
noun:  (philately) A postage stamp used in the time before a region or area issues stamps of its own.

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