Forerunner vs Presage - What's the difference?
forerunner | presage | Synonyms |
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
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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.
A warning of a future event; an omen.
An intuition of a future event; a presentiment.
To predict or foretell something.
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To make a prediction.
To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
Forerunner is a synonym of presage.
As a noun forerunner
is a runner at the front or ahead.As a verb presage is
.forerunner
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Noun
(en noun)- Bakelite is a forerunner of today's plastics.
presage
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(presag)- My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.
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