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