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Intelligencer vs Forerunner - What's the difference?

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Intelligencer is a related term of forerunner.


As nouns the difference between intelligencer and forerunner

is that intelligencer is (dated) a bringer of intelligence (news, information); a spy or informant while forerunner is a runner at the front or ahead.

intelligencer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (dated) A bringer of intelligence (news, information); a spy or informant.

    • 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.