forerunner
🇬🇧 UK/fɒ:'rʌnә/🇺🇸 US
IELTSTOEFLGREC2
Definitions
n.
A person or thing that comes before and indicates or leads to something that follows; a precursor or harbinger.
先驱,前兆,先行者
🧩 Root Breakdown
Native Englishforerunnerother
=forerunner
Common Collocations
- 1.forerunner of前兆
- 2.forerunner to先驱
Example Sentences
- 1.
The printing press was a forerunner of modern mass media and information dissemination technologies.
- 2.
Early computer scientists were forerunners to today's artificial intelligence and machine learning experts.