precursor

Speech parts

1. precursor - Noun

2. precursor - Adjective

Meaning

One who, or that which, precedes an event, and indicates its approach; a forerunner; a harbinger.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

predecessor forerunner harbinger sign omen herald messenger model prototype indication antecedent angel scout pathfinder explorer
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Antonyms

response Son event child fruit daughter
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Hypernyms

individual material person soul indication stuff

Hyponyms

predecessor

Phrases with the word

granulocyte-monocyte precursor cell granulocyte-monocyte precursor granulocytic-macrophagal precursor histiocyte precursor enzyme precursor precursor enzyme

Examples

While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes; recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity, which as noted is a predominant Type II precursor. Tim Holden

We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison. Greg Walden

No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem. Harold Bloom

I would suggest to my honourable Friend that the foreign investor is at least as discouraged by high national debt for that, as all example shows, is the surest precursor of high taxation. John James Cowperthwaite

I believe that faith is a precursor of all our ideas. Charlie Chaplin

Walkman was the precursor to the cell phone, in terms of your strategy for getting through the urban landscape and the modern experience. Insulate yourself from it with your own soundscape. Douglas Rushkoff

Close letter words and terms

precursal precurse precursive precursor enzyme precursorial precursorship