forerunner

  1. Noun.  a runner at the front or ahead.
  2. Noun.  a precursor or harbinger, a warning ahead.
  3. Noun.  a forebear, an ancestor, a predecessor.
  4. Noun.  (philately) a postage stamp used in the time before a region or area issues stamps of its own.

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