forecomerEtymologyFrom fore- + comer. Alternatively, equivalent to forecome + -er.nounOne 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.”