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precursor
Synonyms and Antonyms of precursor
1
one that announces or indicates the later arrival of another
2
something belonging to an earlier time from which something else was later developed
ancestor, antecedent, archetype, daddy, foregoer, forerunner, granddaddy (also grandaddy), predecessor, prototype
descendant (also descendent)
Synonym Discussion of precursor
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- the blockade was the forerunner of war
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- 18th century poets like Burns were precursors of the Romantics
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- their early victory was the harbinger of a winning season
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- the herald of a new age in medicine
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