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forecomers

forecomers is the plural of forecomer.

Meaning of forecomer

Noun

forecomer (plural forecomers)

  1. One who comes before (i.e. prior to or ahead of); a predecessor, antecedent, or ancestor.
    • A grandiloquent proclamation was posted in the town: "To you Prussians, we, the representatives of Russia, turn as the forecomers of united Slavdom," etc., etc., but in reality spirits were low, and soon news was received of the defeat of the 1st Russian Corps at Usdau.1921, Sir Alfred William Fortescue Knox, With the Russian Army, 1914-1917, volume 1, page 84
    Synonyms:
    harbinger, herald

Questions about forecomers

What is forecomers the plural of?
Forecomers is the plural of forecomer.

Words near forecomers in the dictionary

  1. forecolors
  2. forecolour
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  4. forecome
  5. forecomer
  6. forecomers
  7. forecomes
  8. forecoming
  9. forecomings
  10. foreconceive
  11. foreconceived

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