herald
noun/ˈherəld/
/ˈherəld/
- something that shows that something else is going to happen soon
- The government claims that the fall in unemployment is the herald of economic recovery.
- I think of primroses as the heralds of spring.
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- (in the past) a person who made announcements and carried messages from a ruler
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French herault (noun), herauder (verb), of Germanic origin.
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