Sekirov Dictionary

harbinger

UK /ˈhɑːbɪndʒə/US /ˈhɑɹ.bɪn.d͡ʒəɹ/

noun 2
verb 1
forms 3

noun2

•
A person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something.
- Make all our Trumpets speak, giue thẽ all breath / Those clamorous Harbingers of Blood, & Death — 1606
•
(no longer used) 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 — 1644

verb1

•
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; […] — 1841

forms

harbingered · harbingering · harbingers

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