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What is a forerunner?

What is a forerunner? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A runner at the front or ahead.
  2. (sports) 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. A precursor or harbinger, a warning ahead.
  4. A forebear, an ancestor, a predecessor.
  5. (philately) A postage stamp used in the time before a region or area issues stamps of its own.
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The initiative was perhaps the forerunner of today's hospitality boxes, although with a slight difference.
Is this a forerunner of what to expect when the Germany Beck development of up to 700 homes is complete?
Was it perhaps a warning about female intemperance, an early forerunner of Mother's Ruin?
The suburb is more of an ad hoc social development, a forerunner of the gated community, built around the principle of exclusion.
It was generally a parody or skit on more serious opera, a forerunner of the satirical revue.
Mr Freeman said some people were opposed to anything they saw as a forerunner of development.

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