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harbinger
/ˈhɑːbɪndʒə/
noun 2verb 1
Collocations
2VERB + HARBINGER
swallow
HARBINGER + NOUN
danger, dawn, democracy, doom, misfortune, summer
Definitions
noun
1
A person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something.
harbinger of danger; harbinger of doom; harbinger of spring
Make all our Trumpets ſpeak, giue thẽ all breath / Thoſe clamorous Harbingers of Blood, & Death
2
One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when travelling, to provide and prepare lodgings.
outward decency […] is the Harbinger to provide the lodging for inward holinesse
verb
1
To announce or precede; to be a harbinger of.
It was harbingered also by the terrible comet of January, which appeared in a cadent and obscure house, denoting sickness and death; […]
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Synonyms
noun — something that precedes and indicates the approach of someth
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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harbinger of danger; harbinger of doom; harbinger of spring
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Make all our Trumpets ſpeak, giue thẽ all breath / Thoſe clamorous Harbingers of Blood, & Death
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I knew by these harbingers who were coming.
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It was harbingered also by the terrible comet of January, which appeared in a cadent and obscure house, denoting sickness and death; […]
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The crowing of a cock is the harbinger of dawn.
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Those ideas were the harbinger of democracy.
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