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1 one that announces or indicates the later arrival of another 18th-century lyric poets like Robert Burns were precursors of the Romantics Synonyms of precursor angel, foregoer, harbinger, herald, outrider, forerunnerWords Related to precursor foreboder, foreshadower, foretaste, forewarning; advertiser, announcer, blazoner, crier, proclaimer; courier, messenger, runner; augury, auspice, boding, foreboding, foreshadowing, omen, portent, prefiguring, presage; mark, sign, symptom; bellwether
2 something belonging to an earlier time from which something else was later developed a precursor of the modern eggplant Synonyms of precursor antecedent, archetype, daddy, foregoer, forerunner, granddaddy (also grandaddy), ancestor, predecessor, prototypeWords Related to precursor model, original; originator, sire; father, motherNear Antonyms of precursor by-product, derivative, offshoot, outgrowth, spin-off; daughter, sonAntonyms of precursor descendant (also descendent)
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