Word Meanings - HARBINGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
provides lodging, fr. herbergier to provide lodging, F. héberger, OF. 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.
Additional info about word: HARBINGER
provides lodging, fr. herbergier to provide lodging, F. héberger, OF. 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. 2. A forerunner; a precursor; a messenger. I knew by these harbingers who were coming. Landor.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HARBINGER)
- Forerunner
- Predecessor
- precursor
- harbinger
- herald
- omen
- Avant-courier
- Messenger
- Courier
- carrier
- emissary
- forerunner
- Precursor
- pioneer
- advance-guard
- cause
- Prognostic
- Sign
- indication
- symptom
- premonition
- token
- presage
- signal
Related words: (words related to HARBINGER)
- CAUSEFUL
Having a cause. - PIONEERS' DAY
In Utah, a legal holiday, July 24, commemorated the arrival, in 1847, of Brigham Young and his followers at the present site of Salt Lake City. - HARBINGER
provides lodging, fr. herbergier to provide lodging, F. héberger, OF. 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. - PROGNOSTICABLE
Capable of being prognosticated or foretold. Sir T. Browne. - PROGNOSTICATOR
One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs. Isa. xlvii. 13. - SIGNALIZE
1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship - HERALD
An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character. 2. In the Middle Ages, the officer - CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté. - TOKENLESS
Without a token. - SYMPTOM
Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease; as, the causes of disease often lie beyond our sight, but we learn their nature by the symptoms - SYMPTOMATIC; SYMPTOMATICAL
Gr. 1. Of or pertaining to symptoms; happening in concurrence with something; being a symptom; indicating the existence of something else. Symptomatic of a shallow understanding and an unamiable temper. Macaulay. 2. According to symptoms; as, a - HERALDRY
The art or office of a herald; the art, practice, or science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial; also, of marshaling cavalcades, processions, and public ceremonies. - PREDECESSOR
One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position. A prince who was as watchful as his predecessor had been over the interests of the - PRESAGE
1. Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury. "Joy and shout -- presage of victory." Milton. 2. Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment. If there be aught - PRESAGEMENT
1. The act or art of presaging; a foreboding. Sir T. Browne. 2. That which is presaged, or foretold. "Ominous presagement before his end. " Sir H. Wotton. - SIGNALLY
In a signal manner; eminently. - MESSENGER
A hawser passed round the capstan, and having its two ends lashed together to form an endless rope or chain; -- formerly used for heaving in the cable. (more info) 1. One who bears a message; the bearer of a verbal or written communication, notice, - PRESAGEFUL
Full of presages; ominous. Dark in the glass of some presageful mood. Tennyson. - SIGNAL
1. A sign made for the purpose of giving notice to a person of some occurence, command, or danger; also, a sign, event, or watchword, which has been agreed upon as the occasion of concerted action. All obeyed The wonted signal and superior voice - TOKEN
A livid spot upon the body, indicating, or supposed to indicate, the approach of death. Like the fearful tokens of the plague, Are mere forerunners of their ends. Beau. & Fl. (more info) OS. tekan, D. teeken, G. zeichen, OHG. Zeihhan, Icel. takan, - BETOKEN
1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen - COINDICATION
One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease. - VANT-COURIER
An avant-courier. See Van-courier. Holland. - BLOCK SIGNAL
One of the danger signals or safety signals which guide the movement of trains in a block system. The signal is often so coupled with a switch that act of opening or closing the switch operates the signal also. - VINDICATION
The claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing. Burrill. (more info) 1. The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of - WEATHER SIGNAL
Any signal giving information about the weather. The system used by the United States Weather Bureau includes temperature, cold or hot wave, rain or snow, wind direction, storm, and hurricane signals.