as in: heralds the coming of... Define
a sign that something will happen -- especially something important and good
or:
announce or welcome -- especially with enthusiasm
- When he dines alone in chambers, as he has dined to-day, and has his bit of fish and his steak or chicken brought in from the coffee-house, he descends with a candle to the echoing regions below the deserted mansion, and heralded by a remote reverberation of thundering doors, comes gravely back encircled by an earthy atmosphere and carrying a bottle from which he pours a radiant nectar, two score and ten years old, that blushes in the glass to find itself so famous and fills the whole…
- Her appointment would herald a new emphasis on the environment.
- The personal computer heralded a new age.
- Hirrold—Herald— Harold—Skampling—Skumpling—I beg your pardon—Skimpole.
- Such is the assemblage of armorial bearings on coach panels that the Herald’s College might be supposed to have lost its father and mother at a blow.
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as in: heralds the coming of... Define
a sign that something will happen -- especially something important and good
or:
announce or welcome -- especially with enthusiasm
as in: announced by herald & trumpet
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a person who announces important news -- especially a king's representative
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