Voorlooper
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Voorlooper is a noun meaning (obsolete) One who goes ahead to reconnoitre; a scout.
Meaning
(obsolete) One who goes ahead to reconnoitre; a scout.
Example Sentences
I made up two of the smouldering fires, the light of which the voorlooper had seen upon the sky.
Yet there are the 'lands,' S lands, most of them, along which the oxen must have walked and their drivers and voorloopers trudged, since none can dispute the actual evidence that their appearance affords.
Word Forms
- voorloopers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include foreparty, foreganger, avant-courier, antecursor, pioner, pioneer.
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