'front runner' definitions:
Synonyms of 'front runner'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advance guard,
- airhead,
- ancestor,
- announcer,
- antecedent,
- avant-garde,
- battle line,
- beachhead,
- bellwether,
- bridgehead,
- buccinator,
- bushwhacker,
- explorer,
- farthest outpost,
- first line,
- forebear,
- forefront,
- foregoer,
- forerunner,
- front,
- front line,
- front rank,
- front runner,
- frontiersman,
- fugleman,
- groundbreaker,
- guide,
- harbinger,
- herald,
- innovator,
- lead runner,
- leader,
- line,
- messenger,
- outguard,
- outpost,
- pathfinder,
- pioneer,
- point,
- precedent,
- precursor,
- predecessor,
- railhead,
- scout,
- spearhead,
- stormy petrel,
- trailblazer,
- trailbreaker,
- van,
- vanguard,
- vaunt-courier,
- voortrekker