Forerun
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Forerun is a verb meaning To run in front.
Meaning
To run in front.
More Meanings
- To precede; to forecast or foreshadow.
Example Sentences
These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.
Discontent foreran the Two Mutinies, and more or less it lurkingly survived them.
Bailey still sat, doubled over his book […] A finger forerunning his eyes along the page.
And in herself she moan’d, ‘Too late, too late!’ / Till in the cold wind that foreruns the morn, / A blot in heaven, the Raven, flying high, / Croak’d, […]
Word Forms
- foreruns
- forerunning
- foreran
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include precurse, prerun, precourse, precede, forelead, lead.
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