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__NOTOC__ " Harbinger " is the sixty-seventh episode of Star Trek: Enterprise , the fifteenth episode from the third season.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ An ugly start is not necessarily a harbinger of worse things to come. ▪ Edwards was no more than a harbinger of the new way. ▪ In the past, comets were feared harbingers of important historical events, including invasions and ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Harbinger \Har"bin*ger\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harbingered (h[add]r"b[i^]n*j[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Harbingering .] To usher in; to be a harbinger of. ``Thus did the star of religious freedom harbinger the day.'' --Bancroft.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something. 2 (context obsolete English) One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when travelling, to provide ...
Usage examples of harbinger.
The revolution which has ended in the triumph of the Daimios over the Tycoon, is also the triumph of the vassal over his feudal lord, and is the harbinger of political life to the people at large.
But to Walter the new day did not come as a call to new life in the world of will and action, but only as the harbinger of a bliss borne hitherward on the wind of the world.
The sprinklers were down to a drizzle, and soldiers were moving through the great arena now, brisk and smart in grey meshy uniforms, harbingers of order.
However, you will always have relays of people from the suburbs to listen to the Mocking Bird of yesterday, and sincerely imagine it is the harbinger of something new and revolutionising.
The freeway at rush hour was an old friend newly revisited, harbinger of normalcy, a great rough pet sucking in the sharp odor of unleaded gas and exhaling huge gouts of smog.
In Europe, the brimstone is a harbinger of spring, often emerging from its winter hibernation under dead leaves to revel in the countryside while there is still snow upon the ground.
What better way to symbolize the troubled birth of the new world age of Leo than to depict its harbinger as a rampaging lion, particularly since the Age of Leo coincided with the final ferocious meltdown of the last Ice Age, during which huge numbers of animal species all over the earth were suddenly and violently rendered extinct.
As Jacques Bernoulli demonstrated early in the eighteenth century, an isolated event is no harbinger of anything, but the greater your sampling the more likely you are to guess the true distribution of phenomena within your sample.
The Madrona outside her bedroom window cast a pale shadow over the bed, and I thought of the Harbingers, the hideous physicality of them.
Something had broken inside the spork factory and a stream of rainbow-hued plastic implements fountained toward the sky and clattered to the cobblestones on every side, like a harbinger of the postindustrial society to come.
THE HARBINGER Long before the springtide is felt in the dull bosom of the yokel does the city man know that the grassgreen goddess is upon her throne.
The sky, which had been cloudless throughout the days of their journeying, now showed a few long pearly streamers of cirrus reaching forth from the south, the harbingers of the winter monsoon.
There would surely be a storm before night, one of the harbingers of the winter monsoons that were due in only two weeks.
Venus Libitina herself, riding in a car drawn by mice, harbingers of death.
After all, rumours were often the first harbinger of uncomfortable truth.