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frontrunner

frontrunner is the alternative form of front runner.

Meaning of front runner

Noun

front runner (plural front runners)

  1. (idiomatic) One who is the most likely winner in a contest, election, etc.
    • [T]he American League pennant did not shape up as much of a race. There were the Indians and the Yankees, front runners as usual.1955 May 9, “Sport: First-Division Tigers”, in Time
  2. One who engages in front running.

Forms of frontrunner

pluralfrontrunners

Origin of frontrunner

From front + runner.

Questions about frontrunner

What is frontrunner the alternative form of?
Frontrunner is the alternative form of front runner.

Words near frontrunner in the dictionary

  1. frontpages
  2. frontpeople
  3. frontperson
  4. frontroom
  5. frontrun
  6. frontrunner
  7. frontrunner-itis
  8. frontrunneritis
  9. frontrunners
  10. frontrunning
  11. fronts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: frontrunner (page history and authors); front runner (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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