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Meaning of herald


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  herald
      n 1: (formal) a person who announces important news; "the
           chieftain had a herald who announced his arrival with a
           trumpet" [syn: {herald}, {trumpeter}]
      2: something that precedes and indicates the approach of
         something or someone [syn: {harbinger}, {forerunner},
         {predecessor}, {herald}, {precursor}]
      v 1: foreshadow or presage [syn: {announce}, {annunciate},
           {harbinger}, {foretell}, {herald}]
      2: praise vociferously; "The critics hailed the young pianist as
         a new Rubinstein" [syn: {acclaim}, {hail}, {herald}]
      3: greet enthusiastically or joyfully [syn: {hail}, {herald}]


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