Crossword clues for harbinger
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Harbinger \Har"bin*ger\ (h[add]r"b[i^]n*j[~e]r), n. [OE. herbergeour, OF. herbergeor one who provides lodging, fr. herbergier to provide lodging, F. h['e]berger, OF. herberge lodging, inn, F. auberge; of German origin. See Harbor.]
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.-
A forerunner; a precursor; a messenger.
I knew by these harbingers who were coming.
--Landor.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., herbengar "one sent ahead to arrange lodgings" (for a monarch, an army, etc.), alteration of Middle English herberger "provider of shelter, innkeeper" (late 12c.), from Old French herbergeor, from herbergier "provide lodging," from herber "lodging, shelter," from Frankish *heriberga "lodging, inn," from Germanic compound *harja-bergaz, literally "army hill" (cognate with Old Saxon, Old High German heriberga "army shelter") from *heri "army" (see harry (v.)) + berga "shelter" (see barrow (n.2)). Compare harbor (n.). Sense of "forerunner" is mid-16c. Intrusive -n- is 15c. (see messenger). As a verb, from 1640s (harbinge "to lodge" is late 15c.).
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 and prepare lodgings. vb. (context transitive English) To announce; to be a harbinger of.
WordNet
n. an indication of the approach of something or someone [syn: forerunner, herald, precursor]
v. foreshadow or presage [syn: announce, annunciate, foretell, herald]
Wikipedia
__NOTOC__ "Harbinger" is the sixty-seventh episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, the fifteenth episode from the third season.
Harbinger is an American comic book series published by Valiant Comics about a group of teenage super-powered outcasts known as Harbingers.
Harbinger initially featured writing and art by Jim Shooter and David Lapham. After Acclaim Entertainment purchased the rights to the Valiant catalog for $65 million in 1994, the characters were rebooted in Harbinger: Acts of God to make them more easily adaptable to video games. They continued to appear in many Valiant titles, most prominently the Unity 2000 series. Harbinger was one of the best selling Valiant titles with total sales in all languages of over five million comics.
Harbinger (Lyla Michaels) is a fictional character, a DC Comics superheroine created in the early 1980s.
Harbinger is the first novel in the Star Trek: Vanguard series concerning the Starbase 47, otherwise known as Vanguard.
Harbinger is singer–songwriter Paula Cole's debut album. It was originally released through Imago Records but just months after its release the company folded, therefore promotion for Harbinger was almost non-existent. A video was shot for the first single "I Am So Ordinary" and is available on iTunes. There were two different covers for the album, which was eventually re-released by Warner Brothers, who picked up Cole's contract in 1995 after absorbing Imago when it folded.
Harbinger is an adventure role-playing video game by Silverback Entertainment published in 2003 by Dreamcatcher Interactive. Harbinger takes place on a massive space ship inhabited by multiple warring races and a band of refugees. The player has the choice of three characters with their own unique quests, items, and full-game storylines.
Harbinger is the second album released by Dan Seals as a solo artist. Two tracks "Can't Get You Out of My Head", and "I Could Be Lovin' You Right Now" were both released as singles, but both failed to chart. This is his last album for Atlantic, before switching to Liberty/Capitol in 1983. This album was finally released on CD on October 17, 2006.
A harbinger is a forerunner or herald, and may refer to:
Harbinger (foaled 12 March 2006) is a retired thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in 2010.
Harbinger, in comics, may refer to:
- Harbinger (DC Comics), a character in Crisis on Infinite Earths who has since appeared in the Arrow TV series
- Harbinger of Apocalypse, a fictional character in Cable from Marvel Comics
- Harbinger, a name used in Valiant Comics:
- Harbinger (comic book), a comic book published by Valiant Comics
- Harbingers (comics), fictional characters in Valiant Comics
- Harbinger Resistance, a fictional organisation in titles from Valiant Comics
Harbinger is a band formed in 1997 in Berkeley, California featuring three prominent members from the East Bay punk scene:
- Robert Eggplant (vocals/guitar), formerly of Blatz, The Hope Bombs, and editor of the punk zine Absolutely Zippo.
- Aaron Cometbus (drums), founding member of Crimpshrine and author of legendary punk zine Cometbus.
- John Geek (bass/vocals) of Fleshies and the S.P.A.M. Records collective.
Harbinger has performed at Geekfest and numerous other venues.
In 2005 they released a 10-song LP on Riisk entitled . The songs were recorded by Kevin Army in 2001.
Harbinger is a rarely released philosophy newspaper published by the CrimethInc. ex-Workers' Collective. Considered the "communiqué" of the CrimethInc. Underground, its articles explore the collective's critical views of capitalism, work ethic, politics, and modern society as it is and has been for much of the current era. Though CrimethInc. has identified itself as an anarchist collective, they rarely mention anarchism on the pages of Harbinger. This may reflect the groups fear of becoming ideologist, although in many ways Harbinger preludes their anarchist outreach project, Fighting For Our Lives. Articles from the first two issues appeared in CrimethInc.'s Days of War, Nights of Love.
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.