forerunner (noun)
21outrider — noun Date: circa 1530 1. a mounted attendant 2. one who escorts or clears the way for a vehicle or person 3. forerunner, harbinger < outriders of a new political movement > …
22precursor — noun Etymology: Middle English precursoure, from Latin praecursor, from praecurrere to run before, from prae pre + currere to run more at current Date: 15th century 1. a. one that precedes and indicates the approach of another b. predecessor 2. a …
23primitive streak — noun Date: 1854 an elongated band of cells that forms along the axis of a developing fertilized egg early in gastrulation and that is considered a forerunner of the neural tube and nervous system …
24vaunt-courier — noun Etymology: Middle French avant courrier, literally, advance courier Date: 1560 archaic forerunner …
25geekerati — noun An elite community of computer geeks. It took until 1993 and the advent of Mosaic (a forerunner of Netscape) to move the Web out of the hands of solely the geekerati and into the realm of technological early adapters …
26precursor — noun a) That which precurses, a forerunner, a predecessor, an indicator of approaching events. b) One of the compounds that participates in the chemical reaction that produces another compound …
27cithara — noun An ancient Greek stringed instrument, which could be considered a forerunner of the guitar. See Also: guitar …
28copyparty — noun An event where people meet to swap software (often pirated copies of commercial releases), a forerunner of the demoparty …
29satanhood — noun The quality of being Satanic. When the Gospels are seen as an episode in anthropogeny, the Rabbi as a forerunner of a ripened humanity (ours being only pre human), then Peter and Judas appear to have reached satanhood …
30audion tube — noun An electronic amplifier device invented in 1906. It was the forerunner of the triode …
