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Dictionary quizzes to help you remember the meaning

forerunner

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Source Word

forerunner

Noun

A runner at the front or ahead.

Japanese Meaning

先駆者 / 先導者

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The forerunner sprinted ahead to guide the pack through the narrow mountain pass.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

先頭の走者が先に猛スピードで走り、狭い山道で集団を先導した。

Sense（1）

A runner at the front or ahead.

Sense（2）

(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.

Sense（3）

A precursor or harbinger, a warning ahead.

How meek and shrunken did that haughty Tarmac become as it slunk by the wide circle of asphalt of the yellow sort, that was loosely strewn before the great iron gates of Lady Hall as a forerunner of the consideration that awaited the guests of Rupert, Earl of Kare, […].

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（4）

A forebear, an ancestor, a predecessor.

Bakelite is a forerunner of today's plastics.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（5）

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

forerunners

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