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Foregone vs Forerunner - What's the difference?

foregone | forerunner |

As a verb foregone

is past participle of lang=en.

As an adjective foregone

is previous, former.

As a noun forerunner is

a runner at the front or ahead.

foregone

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • previous, former
  • bygone
  • *1874 , William Henley, O, Gather Me the Rose :
  • *:For with the dream foregone', ' foregone ,
    • The deed forborne for ever,
  • *:The worm, regret, will canker on,
    • And time will turn him never.
  • (informal) inevitable, predictable

    • Derived terms

    * foregone conclusion

    forerunner

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a runner at the front or ahead
  • (sport) by extension, a non-competitor who leads out the competitors on to the circuit, or who runs/rides the course prior to competitor trials, usually testing or checking the way.
  • a precursor or harbinger, a warning ahead
  • * '>citation
  • a forebear, an ancestor, a predecessor
  • (philately) a postage stamp used in the time before a region or area issues stamps of its own
  • something that introduces a part of the properties offered by some later thing.
    • Bakelite is a forerunner of today's plastics.