forerunner

Other forms of forerunner

plural

forerunners·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about forerunner

What does forerunner mean?

forerunner means "a person who goes before or announces the coming of another". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in forerunner?

forerunner has 3 syllables: fore-run-ner. The stress falls on "fore". In IPA it is /ˈfɔˌɹʌnɚ/.

What is another word for forerunner?

Close synonyms include precursor, harbinger, predecessor, herald, precursor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is forerunner a common word?

forerunner is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with forerunner?

2 words rhyme with forerunner. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.