Forerunner vs Frontrunner - What's the difference?
forerunner | frontrunner |
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.
As nouns the difference between forerunner and frontrunner
is that forerunner is a runner at the front or ahead while frontrunner is alternative form of lang=en.forerunner
English
Noun
(en noun)- Bakelite is a forerunner of today's plastics.