Word Meanings - FORERUNNER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A piece of rag terminating the log line. (more info) 1. 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

Additional info about word: FORERUNNER

A piece of rag terminating the log line. (more info) 1. 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. 2. A predecessor; an ancestor. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FORERUNNER)

• Harbinger
• Announcer
• herald
• precursor
• forerunner
• Messenger
• Courier
• carrier
• emissary
• harbinger
• Precursor
• Forerunner
• pioneer
• advance-guard
• cause
• Predecessor
• Ancestor
• elder

Related words: (words related to FORERUNNER)

• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• PIONEERS' DAY
  In Utah, a legal holiday, July 24, commemorated the arrival, in 1847, of Brigham Young and his followers at the present site of Salt Lake City.
• HARBINGER
  provides lodging, fr. herbergier to provide lodging, F. héberger, OF. 1. One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when traveling, to provide and prepare lodgings. Fuller.
• HERALD
  An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character. 2. In the Middle Ages, the officer
• ELDERLY
  Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• HERALDRY
  The art or office of a herald; the art, practice, or science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial; also, of marshaling cavalcades, processions, and public ceremonies.
• ELDERBERRY
  The berrylike drupe of the elder. That of the Old World elder and that of the American sweet elder are sweetish acid, and are eaten as a berry or made into wine.
• PREDECESSOR
  One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position. A prince who was as watchful as his predecessor had been over the interests of the
• ELDER
  1. Older; more aged, or existing longer. Let the elder men among us emulate their own earlier deeds. Jowett 2. Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to Ant: younger, and now
• ELDERN
  Made of elder. He would discharge us as boys do eldern guns. Marston.
• MESSENGER
  A hawser passed round the capstan, and having its two ends lashed together to form an endless rope or chain; -- formerly used for heaving in the cable. (more info) 1. One who bears a message; the bearer of a verbal or written communication, notice,
• HERALDICALLY
  In an heraldic manner; according to the rules of heraldry.
• ANCESTORIALLY
  With regard to ancestors.
• HERALDIC
  Of or pertaining to heralds or heraldry; as, heraldic blazoning; heraldic language. T. Warton.
• CAUSERIE
  Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.
• ANNOUNCER
  One who announces.
• ELDERWORT
  Danewort.
• CAUSER
  One who or that which causes.
• ANCESTORIAL
  Ancestral. Grote.
• VANT-COURIER
  An avant-courier. See Van-courier. Holland.
• DISELDER
  To deprive of an elder or elders, or of the office of an elder. Fuller.
• GELDER
  One who gelds or castrates.
• UNCAUSED
  Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter.
• YIELDER
  One who yields. Shak.
• VAN-COURIER
  One sent in advance; an avant-courier; a precursor.