foregrounder

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noun

One who brings something to the foreground.

Scrabble 17
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Meanings

nounforegrounder (plural foregrounders)

plural foregrounders

  1. One who brings something to the foreground.

    He got involved with J. P. Morgan and Teddy Roosevelt who were both foregrounders of the liberal conservation policies in America at that time, and the Indian was seen as a salvageable conservation project within that context […]

    1975, Arthur Cantrill, Corinne Cantrill, Cantrill's Filmnotes, numbers 21-32, page 64

Origin

From foreground + -er.

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APA

foregrounder. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foregrounder

MLA

“foregrounder.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foregrounder. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “foregrounder,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foregrounder.

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