forerunners

Meaning of forerunners

noun
  1. A runner at the front or ahead.
  2. 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.
    Bakelite is a forerunner of today's plastics.
  5. A postage stamp used in the time before a region or area issues stamps of its own.

Information about forerunners

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of forerunners is: forerunner.
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Hyphenation of forerunners

fore-run-ners

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • forerunners is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Words that rhyme with forerunners

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