Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Links
Main Page
Simple talk
Community portal
Statistics
New changes
Show any entry
Help
Word lists
Search
Search
Appearance
Give to Wiktionary
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Give to Wiktionary
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Contents
move to sidebar
hide
Beginning
1
Noun
Toggle Noun subsection
1.1
Related words
Toggle the table of contents
precursor
33 languages
Čeština
Eesti
Ελληνικά
English
Español
Esperanto
Français
한국어
Հայերեն
Ido
Bahasa Indonesia
Italiano
ಕನ್ನಡ
Magyar
Malagasy
മലയാളം
Bahasa Melayu
မြန်မာဘာသာ
Nederlands
Occitan
Oromoo
Polski
Português
Română
Русский
Suomi
Svenska
தமிழ்
తెలుగు
Türkçe
اردو
Tiếng Việt
中文
Entry
Talk
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Permanent link
Page information
Cite this page
Get shortened URL
Download QR code
Print/export
Create a book
Download as PDF
Page for printing
In other projects
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
From Wiktionary
Noun
[
change
]
Singular
precursor
Plural
precursors
(
countable
) A
precursor
is something that comes before; it is a
predecessor
, or a hint of
events
that have yet to happen.
The
typewriter
was the
precursor
of the
computer
.
Related words
[
change
]
precurse
precursory
Categories
:
Nouns
Countable nouns