All precursor synonyms

noun precursor

• herald — (formerly) a royal or official messenger, especially one representing a monarch in an ambassadorial capacity during wartime.
• ancestry — Your ancestry is the fact that you are descended from certain people.
• original — belonging or pertaining to the origin or beginning of something, or to a thing at its beginning: The book still has its original binding.
• crier — a person or animal that cries
• foregoer — Alternative form of forgoer.
• messenger — a person who carries a message or goes on an errand for another, especially as a matter of duty or business.
• firsts — being before all others with respect to time, order, rank, importance, etc., used as the ordinal number of one: the first edition; the first vice president.
• begetter — The begetter of something has caused this thing to come into existence.
• controller — A controller is a person who has responsibility for a particular organization or for a particular part of an organization.
• antecedent — An antecedent of something happened or existed before it and was similar to it in some way.
• doorperson — A doorman or doorwoman.
• foremother — a female ancestor.
• foretoken — a sign of a future event; omen; forewarning.
• antecessor — a predecessor; someone who goes or has gone before
• mock up — a contemptuous or derisive imitative action or speech; mockery or derision.
• materfamilias — the mother of a family.
• commissionaire — a uniformed doorman at a hotel, theatre, etc
• leader — a person or thing that leads.
• outrider — a mounted attendant riding before or beside a carriage.
• harbinger — a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald.
• initiator — SCSI initiator
• mock-up — a model, often full-size, for study, testing, or teaching: a mock-up of an experimental aircraft.
• doorkeeper — a person who guards the entrance of a building.
• dispatcher — a person who dispatches.
• forebear — Usually, forebears. ancestors; forefathers.
• counsellor — A counsellor is a person whose job is to give advice to people who need it, especially advice on their personal problems.
• forerunner — predecessor; ancestor; forebear; precursor.
• foreshadower — One who or that which foreshadows.
• advertiser — An advertiser is a person or company that pays for a product, event, or job to be advertised in a newspaper, on television, or on a poster.
• forebearer — Uncommon variant of forebear.
• forefather — an ancestor.
• mockup — a contemptuous or derisive imitative action or speech; mockery or derision.
• doyen — the senior member, as in age, rank, or experience, of a group, class, profession, etc.
• augury — An augury is a sign of what will happen in the future.
• giveaway — an act or instance of giving something away.
• ancestor — Your ancestors are the people from whom you are descended.