Synonyms for harbinger
ˈhɑr bɪn dʒərhar·bin·ger

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:3.2 / 5 votes

1. harbingernoun

   Synonyms:
   herald, premonition, prophet, omen, sign, signal

2. harbingerverb

   To announce; to be a harbinger of.

   Synonyms:
   herald, premonition, omen, prophet, signal, sign

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.8 / 16 votes

1. harbinger

   Synonyms:
   announcer, herald, precursor, forerunner

   Antonyms:
   reporter, narrator, relator, historian, follower, attendant

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.6 / 12 votes

1. harbinger, forerunner, predecessor, herald, precursorverb

   something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone

   Synonyms:
   precursor, predecessor, trumpeter, forerunner, antecedent, herald

2. announce, annunciate, harbinger, foretell, heraldverb

   foreshadow or presage

   Synonyms:
   predict, herald, hail, betoken, announce, augur, annunciate, bode, portend, omen, acclaim, prefigure, call, prognosticate, anticipate, foreshadow, foretell, forebode, forecast, declare, promise, auspicate, denote, presage

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. harbingernoun

   Synonyms:
   forerunner, precursor, herald

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:3.7 / 3 votes

1. harbingernoun

   Synonyms:
   forerunner, precursor, herald, messenger

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "harbinger":

   omen, portent, messenger, precursor, foretaste, herald, forerunner, courier

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1. Pastor Gordon:

   It’s a harbinger of more trouble to come if we don’t address it right now and hold them accountable to what they are saying.

2. Paul Hackett:

   That very tight margin in a race that should never have been competitive in the first place was a harbinger of 2006, when Democrats got extremely fired up and won a whole lot of previously red seats.

3. Patrick Edmond:

   The French measure is so marginal in its current scope that it is sustainability theater rather than having any material impact on emissions, however we can look at it a different way – as the harbinger of more restrictions on aviation which are likely if the industry doesn’t get more serious about decarbonizing itself.

4. Stephen Kane:

   Information about a planet's interior gives us a sense of whether the surface of the planet is habitable by life as we know it, though this particular planet is unlikely to be inhabited today, it may be a harbinger of many rocky worlds yet to be discovered around our galaxy's oldest stars.

5. Rochelle Walensky:

   There are a lot of studies [from other variants] that show the maximum transmissibility is in those first five days, and [with omicron] we are about to face hundreds of thousands more cases a day, and it was becoming very, very clear from the health care system that we would have people who were [positive but] asymptomatic and not able to work, and that was a harbinger of what was going to come in all other essential functions of society.