Synonyms of the word

forerunner

• n. A runner at the front or ahead.
• n. (sports) By extension, a non-competitor who leads out the competitors on to the circuit, or who runs/rides…
• n. A precursor or harbinger, a warning ahead.
• n. A forebear, an ancestor, a predecessor.
• n. (philately) A postage stamp used in the time before a region or area issues stamps of its own.

antecedent

• adj. Earlier, either in time or order.
• adj. presumptive.
• n. Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
• n. An ancestor.
• n. (grammar) A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun.
• n. (logic) The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition.
• n. (logic) The first of two subsets of a sequent, consisting of all the sequent's formulae which are valuated…
• n. (mathematics) The first term of a ratio, i.e. the term a in the ratio a:b, the other being the consequent.

harbinger

• n. A person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something.
• n. (obsolete) One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly…
• v. (transitive) To announce; to be a harbinger of.

herald

• n. A messenger, especially one bringing important news.
• n. A harbinger, giving signs of things to come.
• n. (heraldry) An official whose speciality is heraldry, especially one between the ranks of pursuivant and…
• n. (entomology) A moth of the species Scoliopteryx libatrix.
• v. (transitive) To proclaim or announce an event.
• v. (transitive, usually passive) To greet something with excitement; to hail.

indicant

• adj. Serving to point out, as a remedy; indicating.
• n. That which indicates or points out.

indication

• n. Act of pointing out or indicating.
• n. That which serves to indicate or point out; mark; token; sign; symptom; evidence.
• n. Discovery made; information.
• n. (obsolete) Explanation; display. Francis Bacon.
• n. (medicine) Any symptom or occurrence in a disease, which serves to direct to suitable remedies.
• n. (finance) An declared approximation of the price at which a traded security is likely to commence trading.

individual

• n. A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
• n. (law) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
• n. An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
• n. (statistics) An element belonging to a population.
• adj. Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
• adj. Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.

mortal

• adj. Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
• adj. Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
• adj. Fatally vulnerable; vital.
• adj. Of or relating to the time of death.
• adj. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
• adj. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal.
• adj. Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
• n. A human; someone susceptible to death.

person

• n. An individual; usually a human being.
• n. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
• n. (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
• n. (law) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
• n. (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom…
• n. (biology) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also,…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
• v. (transitive, gender-neutral) To man.

precursor

• n. That which precurses, a forerunner, a predecessor, an indicator of approaching events.
• n. (chemistry) One of the compounds that participates in the chemical reaction that produces another compound.

somebody

• pron. Some unspecified person.
• n. A recognised person, a celebrity.

someone

• pron. Some person.
• n. A partially specified but unnamed person.

soul

• n. (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and…
• n. The spirit or essence of anything.
• n. Life, energy, vigor.
• n. (music) Soul music.
• n. A person, especially as one among many.
• n. An individual life.
• n. (mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
• v. (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.