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prédécesseur — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • forerunner noun A runner at the front or ahead.
  • predecessor noun A person who held a job, role, or position before the current person.

Senses

prédécesseur is used for these senses in English:

  • forerunner A precursor or harbinger, a warning ahead.
  • predecessor One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position.

forerunner — full definition

  1. noun A runner at the front or ahead.
  2. noun By extension, a non-competitor who leads out the competitors on to the circuit, or who runs/rides the course prior to competitor trials, usually testing or checking the way.
  3. noun A precursor or harbinger, a warning ahead.
  4. noun A forebear, an ancestor, a predecessor.

predecessor — full definition

  1. noun A person who held a job, role, or position before the current person.
  2. noun An earlier model or version of something that has since been replaced.

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