forerunner : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: forerunner	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for forerunner
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
forerunner n a person who goes before or announces the coming of another Synonym(s): precursor, forerunner something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone Synonym(s): harbinger, forerunner, predecessor, herald, precursor anything that precedes something similar in time; "phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience" Synonym(s): antecedent, forerunner
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Forerunner \Forerun"ner\, n. 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. [Obs.] --Shak. 3. (Naut.) A piece of rag terminating the log line.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Forerunner John the Baptist went before our Lord in this character (Mark 1:2, 3). Christ so called (Heb. 6:20) as entering before his people into the holy place as their head and guide.