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Herald

Herald Meaning & Definition
Herald Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Herald?

[n] an indication of the approach of something or someone
[n] (formal) a person who announces important news; "the chieftain had a herald who announced his arrival with a trumpet"
[v] praise vociferously
[v] greet enthusiastically or joyfully
[v] foreshadow or presage

Synonyms | Synonyms for Herald: acclaim | announce | annunciate | forerunner | foretell | hail | harbinger | harbinger | precursor | trumpeter

Related Terms | Find terms related to Herald: ancestor | announce | announcer | antecede | antecedent | antedate | anticipate | avant-garde | ballyhoo | be before | be early | bellwether | blare | blare forth | blaze | blaze abroad | blaze the trail | blazon | blazon about | break the trail | buccinator | buccinator novi temporis | bushwhacker | celebrate | Clarenceux | College of Arms | come before | commissar | commissary | commissionaire | commissioner | courier | crier | cry | cry out | declaim | delegate | earl marshal | emissary | envoy | evangel | evangelist | explorer | forebear | foregoer | forerun | forerunner | foreshadower | foreshow | front runner | frontiersman | fugleman | Gabriel | Garter | give notice | go before | groundbreaker | guide | harbinger | herald abroad | herald angel | innovator | introduce | king at arms | king of arms | lead | lead runner | leader | legate | Lyon | messenger | minister | mouthpiece | Norroy | Norroy and Ulster | notify | official spokesman | outrider | pathfinder | pioneer | point | preannounce | precede | precedent | precurse | precursor | predate | predecessor | preexist | preindicate | premonitor | presage | presager | proclaim | prolocutor | prolocutress | prolocutrix | promulgate | rapporteur | reporter | run before | scout | secretary | shout | speaker | spokesman | spokeswoman | stormy petrel | thunder | thunder forth | trailblazer | trailbreaker | trumpet | trumpet forth | usher in | vanguard | vaunt-courier | voice | voortrekker

See Also | applaud | courier | greet | indicant | indication | messenger | recognise | recognize | tell

Herald In Webster's Dictionary

\Her"ald\, n. [OE. herald, heraud, OF. heralt, heraut, herault, F. h['e]raut, LL. heraldus, haraldus, fr. (assumed) OHG. heriwalto, hariwaldo, a (civil) officer who serves the army; hari, heri, army + waltan to manage, govern, G. walten; akin to E. wield. See {Harry}, {Wield}.] 1. (Antiq.) 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 charged with the above duties, and also with the care of genealogies, of the rights and privileges of noble families, and especially of armorial bearings. In modern times, some vestiges of this office remain, especially in England. See {Heralds' College} (below), and {King-at-Arms}. 3. A proclaimer; one who, or that which, publishes or announces; as, the herald of another's fame. --Shak. 4. A forerunner; a a precursor; a harbinger. It was the lark, the herald of the morn. --Shak. 5. Any messenger. ``My herald is returned.'' --Shak. {Heralds' College}, in England, an ancient corporation, dependent upon the crown, instituted or perhaps recognized by Richard III. in 1483, consisting of the three Kings-at-Arms and the Chester, Lancaster, Richmond, Somerset, Windsor, and York Heralds, together with the Earl Marshal. This retains from the Middle Ages the charge of the armorial bearings of persons privileged to bear them, as well as of genealogies and kindred subjects; -- called also {College of Arms}.
\Her"ald\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Heralded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Heralding}.] [Cf. OF. herauder, heraulder.] To introduce, or give tidings of, as by a herald; to proclaim; to announce; to foretell; to usher in. --Shak.

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