Meaning of Harbinger | Babel Free
ˈhɑːbɪndʒəDefinitions
- A person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something.
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One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when travelling, to provide and prepare lodgings. obsolete
Equivalents
Cymraeg
cennad
Dansk
varsel
Esperanto
omeno
עברית
מבשר
Italiano
annunciare
araldo
foriero
messaggero
precursore
premonire
premonitore
premonitrice
presagio
presagire
profeta
profetizzare
Polski
zwiastun
Examples
“harbinger of danger; harbinger of doom; harbinger of spring”
“Make all our Trumpets ſpeak, giue thẽ all breath / Thoſe clamorous Harbingers of Blood, & Death”
“I knew by these harbingers who were coming.”
“It’s to realize that Moon Frye, by cheerfully surveilling her own life, and those first Real Worlders, by agreeing to the constant presence of producers and cameras, were the harbingers of today’s culture, in which self-image is shaped in the expectation of a lens and personhood collates with brand identity.”
“outward decency […] is the Harbinger to provide the lodging for inward holinesse”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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