foregoers

noun

plural of foregoer
1
as in symptoms
one that announces or indicates the later arrival of another a nearly November snowfall that appears to be a disconcerting foregoer of the harsh winter facing us

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance
2
as in ancestors
something belonging to an earlier time from which something else was later developed not many people still have manual typewriters, the foregoers to word processors

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Antonyms & Near Antonyms

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for foregoers
  1. symptoms
  2. ancestors
  3. precursors
  4. forerunners
  5. angels
  6. predecessors
  7. signs
  8. prototypes
Noun
  • Another employee has symptoms that seem urgent but may not require an emergency room.
    — Soniya Bopache, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Medical records pivoted from linking symptoms from obesity to mental health factors.
    — Jennifer Silva, STAT, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of symptoms
Noun
  • Marshall’s ancestors were among the earliest members of the Followers, whose history dates to the late 1800s, when faith-healing sects were active in the Midwest.
    — Noelle Crombie, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2026
  • Very charming to think of our ancient ancestors getting the munchies.
    — AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of ancestors
Noun
  • These store openings follow two Simkhai pop-ups — at Galeries Lafayette in Paris and La Rinascente in Milan — that were precursors to Simkhai’s international push.
    — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 10 Nov. 2026
  • Fresh precursors can be pumped in through the veins, and one day they might be partly gathered from the environment.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of precursors
Noun
  • Rather than try to replicate his forerunners’ styles of success, Ternus has so far played to his own strengths—which are also those of Apple, a company that first and foremost builds beautiful products that spark productivity, creativity, and joy.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Margaret and Alice are the forerunners of Lucy and Ethel, and Shakespeare’s comedy, written expressly to entertain, gives us a sense of what an Elizabethan-era situation comedy might look like.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026
Definition of forerunners
Noun
  • Men are not angels, and neither are the people spending your money.
    — Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Nov. 2026
  • His garment is sunlit and he is surrounded by blue sky populated with angels and saints who seem to be in movement, floating on the breezes of the high mountain air.
    — Artforum, Artforum, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of angels
Noun
  • That’s one of the primary reasons Mayor-elect Nithya Raman will get a chance to do what her predecessors could not.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Trump himself has reversed national monument designations made by his predecessors.
    — Collin Binkley, Chicago Tribune, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of predecessors
Noun
  • Chemically destroying the channel in adult mouse osteocytes accelerated signs of aging far beyond the skeleton, affecting the brain, liver, and muscles.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Nov. 2026
  • How can two people build their own language based on emotions, based on signs.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of signs
Noun
  • Current prototypes in pipeline NASA is actively turning these concepts into hardware.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2026
  • The plastic components were also largely molded in Hungary, with specialist costume-effects makers developing the initial prototypes.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of prototypes
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