forerunner (noun)
71harbinger — I noun announcer, annunciator, antecursor, augur, augury, auspice, courier, crier, forerunner, foretoken, forewarning, herald, informer, intelligencer, messenger, omen, portent, praenuntius, precursor, premonitory sign, presage, proclaimer,… …
72leader — I noun administrator, antecedent, captain, chairman, chief, commander, controller, demagogue, director, employer, forerunner, manager, mastermind, official, overseer, pathfinder, pioneer, precursor, predecessor, principal, protagonist, ruler,… …
73pioneer — I noun adventurer, colonist, colonizer, discoverer, establisher, explorer, forerunner, founder, founding father, frontiersman, innovator, inventor, lead, leader, modernist, pacesetter, pathfinder, precursor, predecessor, ringleader, scout,… …
74precursor — I noun advance guard, ancestor, announcer, antecedent, augury, avant courier, forebearer, forefather, foregoer, forerunner, guide, harbinger, herald, omen, parent, pathfinder, patriarch, pioneer, portent, precursor, praenuntius, precedent,… …
75predecessor — I noun ancestor, antecedent, antecessor, elder, forebearer, forefather, foregoer, foreparent, forerunner, former incumbent, former officeholder, founder, originator, patriarch, precursor, procreator, progenitor II index ancestor, ascendant,… …
76progenitor — I noun ancestor, antecedent, antecessor, begettor, forebear, forefather, foregoer, forerunner, genitor, origin, parens, parent, precursor, predecessor, primogenitor, procreator, sire, source II index ancestor, ascendant, derivation …
77Anaxagoras and the atomists — C.C.W.Taylor ANAXAGORAS In the course of the fifth century BC the political and cultural pre eminence of Athens attracted to the city a considerable number of intellectuals of various kinds from all over the Greek world. This phenomenon, the so… …
78pioneer — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. forerunner, settler; originator. See precedence. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. pioneering, initial, untried; see brave 1 , early 1 , experimental . n. 1. [One who prepares the way] Syn. pathfinder,… …
79presage — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. portent, prophecy, augury, forecast, omen; prediction, precursor, harbinger, forerunner; inkling, promise. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. augur, forecast, predict; see foretell . III (Roget s Thesaurus II) I …
80priority — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Precedence in time Nouns 1. priority, antecedence, anteriority, primogeniture; preexistence; precession; precursor, forerunner; past; premises. See precedence, ancestry, beginning. 2. precursor,… …
