[syn: announce, annunciate, harbinger, foretell, herald]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Harbinger \Har"bin*ger\ (h[add]r"b[i^]n*j[~e]r), n. [OE.
herbergeour, OF. herbergeor one who provides lodging, fr.
herbergier to provide lodging, F. h['e]berger, OF. herberge
lodging, inn, F. auberge; of German origin. See Harbor.]
1. 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.
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2. A forerunner; a precursor; a messenger.
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I knew by these harbingers who were coming.
--Landor.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Harbinger \Har"bin*ger\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harbingered
(h[add]r"b[i^]n*j[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Harbingering.]
To usher in; to be a harbinger of. "Thus did the star of
religious freedom harbinger the day." --Bancroft.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
harbinger
n 1: something that precedes and indicates the approach of
something or someone [syn: harbinger, forerunner,
predecessor, herald, precursor]
v 1: foreshadow or presage [syn: announce, annunciate,
harbinger, foretell, herald]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
58 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, voortrekker