fore·run·ner /ˈforˌrʌnɚ/
先驅
Fore·run·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.]
3. Naut. A piece of rag terminating the log line.
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forerunner
n 1: anything that precedes something similar in time;
"phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience"
[syn: antecedent]
2: a person who goes before or announces the coming of another
[syn: precursor]
3: an indication of the approach of something or someone [syn:
harbinger, herald, precursor]
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.