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voorlooper

voorlooper noun: one who goes ahead to reconnoitre; a scout.

Noun

voorlooper (plural voorloopers)

  1. (obsolete) One who goes ahead to reconnoitre; a scout.
    • Yet there are the 'lands,' S lands, most of them, along which the oxen must have walked and their drivers and voorloopers trudged, since none can dispute the actual evidence that their appearance affords.1902, Henry Rider Haggard, Rural England: Being an Account of Agricultural and Social Researches Carried Out in the Years 1901 & 1902
    • I made up two of the smouldering fires, the light of which the voorlooper had seen upon the sky.1921, H. Rider Haggard, She and Alan

Forms of voorlooper

pluralvoorloopers

Questions about voorlooper

What does voorlooper mean?
Voorlooper means one who goes ahead to reconnoitre; a scout.
What part of speech is voorlooper?
Voorlooper is a noun.
What is the plural of voorlooper?
The plural of voorlooper is voorloopers.

Words near voorlooper in the dictionary

  1. voorhuises
  2. voorkamer
  3. voorkamers
  4. voorleser
  5. voorlesers
  6. voorlooper
  7. voorloopers
  8. Voorne aan Zee
  9. Voorschoten
  10. voorskot
  11. voorskots

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