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Precursor

Precursor Meaning & Definition
Precursor Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Precursor?

[n] an indication of the approach of something or someone
[n] a person who goes before or announces the coming of another

Synonyms | Synonyms for Precursor: forerunner | forerunner | harbinger | herald

Related Terms | Find terms related to Precursor: advance guard | agent | airhead | alterant | alterative | alterer | ancestor | ancestors | announcer | antecedence | antecedency | antecedent | anteposition | anteriority | apprentice | architect | artificer | artist | author | avant-garde | battle line | beachhead | begetter | beginner | bridgehead | buccinator novi temporis | builder | catalyst | catalytic agent | colonial | colonist | colonizer | conceiver | constructor | craftsman | creator | danger sign | designer | deviser | discoverer | dominion | early bird | early comer | early riser | early symptom | effector | engenderer | engineer | executor | executrix | falling barometer | farthest outpost | father | ferment | first arrival | first line | forefront | foregoer | foregoing | forerunner | foreshadower | founder | front | front line | front position | front rank | front-runner | gathering clouds | generator | grower | harbinger | heading | herald | high sign | homesteader | immigrant | inaugurator | industrialist | initiator | innovationist | innovator | instigator | institutor | introducer | inventor | journeyman | le pas | leading | leaven | line | maker | manufacturer | master | master craftsman | messenger | modificator | modifier | mother | nester | omen | organizer | originator | outguard | outpost | outrider | past master | pioneer | planner | planter | point | precedence | precedency | precedent | preceding | precession | predecessor | preference | prefixation | preliminary sign | prelude | premise | premonitor | premonitory sign | premonitory symptom | presager | prime mover | priority | prodroma | prodrome | producer | prothesis | prototype | quarantine flag | railhead | raiser | realizer | red flag | red light | scout | settler | shaper | sire | skull and crossbones | smith | sooner | spearhead | squatter | storm petrel | stormy petrel | superiority | symptom | the lead | thundercloud | thunderhead | top priority | transformer | transmogrifier | urgency | van | vanguard | warning sign | warning signal | wright | yeast | yellow flag | yellow jack

See Also | human | indicant | indication | individual | mortal | person | predecessor | somebody | someone | soul

Precursor In Webster's Dictionary

\Pre*cur"sor\, n. [L. praecursor, fr. praecurrere to run before; prae before + currere to run. See {Course}.] One who, or that which, precedes an event, and indicates its approach; a forerunner; a harbinger. Evil thoughts are the invisible, airy precursors of all the storms and tempests of the soul. --Buckminster. Syn: Predecessor; forerunner; harbinger; messenger; omen; sign.

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