herald
[noun]
Synonyms:
- messenger, crier
- forerunner, harbinger, indication, omen, precursor, sign, signal, token
[verb]
Synonyms:
- indicate, foretoken, portend, presage, promise, show, usher in

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Related Words: courier, crier, messenger

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

Herald, The
⇒ see Glasgow Herald

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

I. her‧ald¹ /ˈherəld/ verb [transitive]

1. to be a sign of something that is going to come or happen soon:
A flash of lightning heralded torrential rain.
Flashing blue lights heralded the arrival of the police.

2. to say publicly that someone or something will be good or important
be heralded as something
When it opened, the hospital was heralded as a new way forward in nursing care.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. herald² noun
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: herault]

1. [countable] someone who carried messages from a ruler in the past

2. herald of something a sign that something is soon going to happen:
a bowl of daffodils, the first bright heralds of spring

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲