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forerunner has 5 distinct synonyms spread across 3 of its 3 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
a person who goes before or announces the coming of another
something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for forerunner come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
anything that precedes something similar in time
“phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience”