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English to English noun
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a person who goes before or announces the coming of another |  | source: wordnet30
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something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone | | source: wordnet30
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anything that precedes something similar in time | | Example: phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience
source: wordnet30
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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. | | source: webster1913
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