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Herald   /hˈɛrəld/   Listen
Herald

noun
1.
(formal) a person who announces important news.  Synonym: trumpeter.
2.
Something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone.  Synonyms: forerunner, harbinger, precursor, predecessor.
verb
(past & past part. heralded; pres. part. heralding)
1.
Foreshadow or presage.  Synonyms: announce, annunciate, foretell, harbinger.
2.
Praise vociferously.  Synonyms: acclaim, hail.
3.
Greet enthusiastically or joyfully.  Synonym: hail.






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"Herald" Quotes from Famous Books



... at Huntingdon's feast, unaware of the Prince's presence, execrate his name, and at length he retires, in a silent fury. Robin gives to Marian a remarkable ring that he has inherited from his mother. Later a herald enters and reads a proclamation from Prince John, declaring the Earl of Huntingdon to be a felon, and commanding his banishment. Robin cannot forcibly oppose that mandate, and he therefore determines to cast in his lot with Scarlet and Friar Tuck and other "minions of the moon," and thenceforward ...
— Shadows of the Stage • William Winter

... were drawn back upon the scene beside the Scheldt, he got readily into the swing of the story. He was so much interested in the bass who sang KING HENRY that he had almost forgotten for what he was waiting so nervously, when the HERALD began in stentorian tones to summon ELSA VON BRABANT. Then he began to realize that he was rather frightened. There was a flutter of white at the back of the stage, and women began to come in: two, four, six, eight, but not the right one. It flashed ...
— Song of the Lark • Willa Cather

... was embodied in Benjamin Franklin,—in all this eighteenth century the best type and herald of the coming development of man. Franklin inherited the characteristic virtue of the Englishman and the Puritan; he started in ground which Puritan and Quaker had fertilized, and when the fire of the early zeal had cooled; he worked out the problem ...
— The Chief End of Man • George S. Merriam

... the texts indispensable to the spread of learning, which in turn was prerequisite to religious unity and peace on earth and ultimately to the millennium itself; for with enough of the right books, the Christian world could convert the Jews, that final step which was to herald the reign of Christ on earth. When, in the second letter, Dury refers to the "stewardship" of the librarian he is speaking literally, ...
— The Reformed Librarie-Keeper (1650) • John Dury

... gems on my apple tree This first morning of May Has fallen out of the night, to be Herald of holiday— Bright gems of green that, fallen there, Seem fixed and glowing on ...
— Georgian Poetry 1916-17 - Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh • Various


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