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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun harbinger has 1 sense
- harbinger(n = noun.communication) forerunner, herald, precursor, predecessor - something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone; Array is a kind of indicant, indication
Derived form verb harbinger1
Verb harbinger has 1 sense
- harbinger(v = verb.communication) announce, annunciate, foretell, herald - foreshadow or presage; Array is one way to tell
Derived form noun harbinger1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
harbinger, n. [OE. herbergeour, OF. herbergeor one who provides lodging, fr. herbergier to provide lodging, F. héberger, OF. herberge lodging, inn, F. auberge; of German origin. See Harbor.].
- One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when traveling, to provide and prepare lodgings. Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- A forerunner; a precursor; a messenger. [1913 Webster]"I knew by these harbingers who were coming." [1913 Webster]
harbinger, v. t.
To usher in; to be a harbinger of. Bancroft. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
harbinger, n.
1 a person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another.
2 a forerunner.
1 a person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another.
2 a forerunner.
Etymology
earlier = 'one who provides lodging': ME herbergere f. OF f. herberge lodging f. Gmc
THESAURUS
harbinger
Gabriel, ancestor, announce, announcer, antecedent, augury, avant-garde, bellwether, buccinator, buccinator novi temporis, bushwhacker, evangel, evangelist, explorer, forebear, foregoer, forerun, forerunner, foreshadower, foreshow, foretoken, front runner, frontiersman, fugleman, give notice, groundbreaker, guide, herald, herald angel, innovator, lead runner, leader, messenger, notify, omen, outrider, pathfinder, pioneer, point, portent, preannounce, precedent, precursor, predecessor, preindicate, premonitor, presage, presager, proclaim, run before, scout, sign, stormy petrel, trailblazer, trailbreaker, vanguard, vaunt-courier, voortrekkerROGET THESAURUS
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Precursor
N precursor, antecedent, precedent, predecessor, forerunner, vancourier, avant-coureur, pioneer, prodrome, prodromos, prodromus, outrider, leader, bellwether, herald, harbinger, foreboding, dawn, avant-courier, avant-garde, bellmare, forelooper, foreloper, stalking-horse, voorlooper, voortrekker, prelude, preamble, preface, prologue, foreword, avant-propos, protasis, proemium, prolusion, proem, prolepsis, prolegomena, prefix, introduction, heading, frontispiece, groundwork, preparation, overture, exordium, symphony, premises, prefigurement, omen, precursory, prelusive, prelusory, preludious, proemial, introductory, prefatory, prodromous, inaugural, preliminary, precedent, a precedent embalms a principle.Omen
N omen, portent, presage, prognostic, augury, auspice, sign, harbinger, yule candle, bird of ill omen, signs of the times, gathering clouds, warning, prefigurement, ill-boding, auspicium melioris aevi.
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