forerunner (noun)
51harbinger — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. omen, sign, forerunner, precursor. See prediction. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. forerunner, herald, indication, sign, signal; see also messenger , signal . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD)… …
52predecessor — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. forerunner (see priority); ancestor, antecedent, progenitor. See ancestry. Ant., successor. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. antecedent, forerunner, ancestor; see ancestor , forerunner . III (Roget s 3… …
53antecedent — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. preliminary, previous, prior; see preceding . See Synonym Study at previous . n. Syn. predecessor, precursor, forerunner; see forerunner . See Synonym Study at cause . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) I (VOCABULARY WORD) n …
54Stoicism — Stoicism1 Brad Inwood 1 FROM SOCRATES TO ZENO More than eighty years passed between the death of Socrates in 399 BC and the arrival in Athens of Zeno in 312. Athenian society had undergone enormous upheavals, both political and social. The Greek… …
55herald — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. forerunner, precursor, announcer, messenger, harbinger. v. proclaim, announce, declare; introduce; precede, warn. See prediction, communication, precedence. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. envoy, bearer,… …
56ancestor — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. progenitor, forebear, founder of the family, forefather, parent, father, mother, Sire, grandSire, forerunner, author, predecessor, originator, precursor, prototype, primogenitor, grandfather, grandmother, procreator,… …
57biblical literature — Introduction four bodies of written works: the Old Testament writings according to the Hebrew canon; intertestamental works, including the Old Testament Apocrypha; the New Testament writings; and the New Testament Apocrypha. The Old… …
58Email — This article is about the communications medium. For the former manufacturing conglomerate, see Email Limited. The at sign, a part of every SMTP email address[1] Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e mail, is a method of exchanging… …
59Compound (linguistics) — In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word) that consists of more than one stem. Compounding or composition is the word formation that creates compound lexemes (the other word formation process being derivation). Compounding… …
60Baptism — This article is about the Christian religious ceremony. For other uses, see Baptism (disambiguation). Baptism of Neophytes by Masaccio, 15th century, Brancacci Chapel, Florence.[ …
