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Forerunner vs Precursory - What's the difference?

forerunner | precursory |

As nouns the difference between forerunner and precursory

is that forerunner is a runner at the front or ahead while precursory is (medicine) a precursor; a sign of the onset of something.

As an adjective precursory is

pertaining to events that will follow.

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.

    precursory

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Pertaining to events that will follow.
  • precursory symptoms of a fever
  • Of or pertaining to a precursor.
  • Noun

    (precursories)
  • (medicine) A precursor; a sign of the onset of something.