Definitions for forerun

forerun fore·run

Spelling: [fawr-ruhn, fohr-]
IPA: /fɔrˈrʌn, foʊr-/

Forerun is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 87 anagrams from letters in forerun (efnorru).

Definitions for forerun

verb (used with object)

  1. to run in front of; come before; precede.
  2. to be the precursor or harbinger of; prefigure.
  3. to anticipate or foretell.
  4. to forestall.
  5. to outrun or outstrip.

Origin of forerun

1505-15; fore- + run; probably not continuous with Middle English forerennen (intransitive) to run ahead, Old English fōryrnan

Examples for forerun

The comet was the talk, especially in the evening, of the world, as it was taken to forerun disasters.

I saw evidences of war-paint and a recent war-dance that forerun an Indian attack.

He only wondered what strange experience this blindfold journey was to forerun.

But the reflexes have a machine-like fatality, and conscious aim does not forerun their execution.

True that the overthrow of Constantinople had forerun this event by nearly half a century.

He called to his mind the various portents and prophecies which had forerun their present danger.

It cannot forerun the limitations of its day, nor anticipate the conquests and common possessions of the future.

The President's secret had been well kept, and for once rumor had not forerun execution.

Word Value for forerun
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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