Betekenis van forerunner In het Nederlands

• 0 something or someone that acts as an early and less advanced model for what will appear in the future, or a warning or sign of what is to follow:

  • Germany's Green party was said to be the forerunner of environmental parties throughout Europe.

  • The drop in share prices in March was a forerunner of the financial crash that followed in June.

• 1 an early, often less advanced model of something:

  • His machine was a forerunner of the modern computer.