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n. A person who carries or proclaims important news; a messenger.

n. One that gives a sign or indication of something to come; a harbinger: The crocus is a herald of spring.

n. An official whose specialty is heraldry.

n. An official formerly charged with making royal proclamations and bearing messages of state between sovereigns.

n. An official who formerly made proclamations and conveyed challenges at a tournament.

v. To proclaim; announce: cheers that heralded the team's arrival.

n. A messenger, especially one bringing important news.

n. A harbinger, giving signs of things to come.

n. An official whose speciality is heraldry, especially one between the ranks of pursuivant and king of arms.

n. A moth (Scoliopteryx libatrix)

v. To proclaim, announce, etc. an event.

n. An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character.

n. In the Middle Ages, the officer charged with the above duties, and also with the care of genealogies, of the rights and privileges of noble families, and especially of armorial bearings. In modern times, some vestiges of this office remain, especially in England. See Heralds' College (below), and King-at-Arms.

n. A proclaimer; one who, or that which, publishes or announces.

n. A forerunner; a a precursor; a harbinger.

n. Any messenger.

v. To introduce, or give tidings of, as by a herald; to proclaim; to announce; to foretell; to usher in.

n. An officer sent by a sovereign, a general, or other person of high authority to another, or to an army or public assembly, with a formal message or proclamation, or employed in related duties.

n. In extended modern use, any official messenger, especially one charged with a message of defiance, a proposition of peace, or the like.

n. A proclaimer; a publisher; a crier; an announcer of important tidings.

n. A forerunner; a precursor; a harbinger: sometimes used poetically in apposition or attributively.

n. The red-breasted merganser, Mergus serrator, more fully called herald-duck. See earl-duck, harle.

n. A noctuid moth, Gonoptera libatrix: an English collectors’ name. See Gonoptera.

To proclaim; give tidings of as a herald; announce.

v. greet enthusiastically or joyfully

v. foreshadow or presage

v. praise vociferously

n. (formal) a person who announces important news

n. something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone

"Then I called the herald, and said, "Sound for the fire.""

heralded    heraldic    heraldically    heralding    heralds   

recognise    recognize    greet    tell    applaud    courier    messenger    indicant    indication   

herald’ college    herald-at-arms   

heraldic    heraldry   

king-at-arms   

heralded    heralding   

proclaimer    forerunner    harbinger    proclaim    announce    foretell    crier    predecessor    forerun    messenger   

Fitzgerald    Gerald    Harold    Jerald    Jerrold    barreled    fitzgerald    imperiled