forerunner 的定义
- predecessor; ancestor; forebear; precursor.
- an omen, sign, or indication of something to follow; portent: The warm evenings were a forerunner of summer.
- a person who goes or is sent in advance to announce the coming of someone or something that follows; herald; harbinger.
- the Forerunner, John the Baptist.
forerunner 近义词
messenger, herald
forerunner 的近义词 16 个
- precursor
- advertiser
- advocate
- ancestor
- announcer
- author
- envoy
- harbinger
- initiator
- originator
- pioneer
- progenitor
- prognostic
- prototype
- forebearer
- foregoer
forerunner 的反义词 1 个
example, sign
更多forerunner例句
- Whatever becomes of the quest for artificial general intelligence, it seems there’s still plenty of room to run for its more vocational forerunners.
- They’re most interesting as forerunners to other, better Taylor Swift songs.
- How it evolved, and where its forerunners came from, is up for debate.
- The EU, a forerunner on climate policy, has pledged to make the bloc’s economic recovery “green.”
- The researchers showed that, elaborate as that chemical mechanism is in cells today, nearly all the ingredients for a potential forerunner to it could have formed easily from just two simple organic compounds reacting in water.
- Melchior is the forerunner of the aunt who always gave me socks.
- Turing conceived and built a computer, the forerunner of all digital computations, that cracked the code.
- By contrast, Ashraf Ghani, the current forerunner in the partial second round results, got record support in Pashtun areas.
- The organization started by Norquist is a forerunner to the Tea Party.
- I see Dickens as the forerunner to people like Chaplin and Woody Allen, really.
- It may be a forerunner or successor, the cause or consequence, or a contemporaneous fact, etc.
- Poniatowski's campaign against Austria, glorious as it was for the Poles, was in reality the forerunner of disaster.
- Forerunner of the many first-aid classes to come was that hour of Mabel's, and made memorable by one thing she said.
- Nobody dreamed at that time that the little tool was the forerunner of a great change.
- This is the first attempt at an anthology of Yorkshire poetry, and the forerunner of many other anthologies.