forerunner (n.)

• advertisement
• advertiser
• ancestor
• announcement
• announcer
• antecedent
• augury
• author
• avant-garde
• bellwether
• buccinator
• bushwhacker
• choirmaster
• choragus
• coach
• conductor
• duce
• envoy
• evangel
• evangelist
• example
• exemplar
• explorer
• forebear
• forefather
• foretoken
• forewarning
• frontiersman
• fugleman
• groundbreaker
• guide
• harbinger
• herald
• initiator
• innovator
• instructor
• leader
• mark
• mentor
• messenger
• messiah
• model
• omen
• originator
• outrider
• pacemaker
• pacesetter
• pathfinder
• pattern
• pioneer
• point
• portent
• precedent
• precentor
• precursor
• predecessor
• premise
• premonition
• presage
• progenitor
• prognostic
• prototype
• ringleader
• scout
• sign
• standard-bearer
• symptom
• teacher
• token
• torchbearer
• trailblazer
• trainer
• vanguard
• warning