See harbinger on Wiktionary
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coming.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2021 March 26, Alexis Soloski, “‘Kid 90’ and the Days When Even Wild TV Teens Had Privacy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:", "text": "It’s to realize that Moon Frye, by cheerfully surveilling her own life, and those first Real Worlders, by agreeing to the constant presence of producers and cameras, were the harbingers of today’s culture, in which self-image is shaped in the expectation of a lens and personhood collates with brand identity.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something." ], "id": "en-harbinger-en-noun-EH9NyH-e", "links": [ [ "foreshadow", "foreshadow" ], [ "foretell", "foretell" ] ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "forewarning" }, { "word": "herald" }, { "word": "omen" }, { "word": "premonition" }, { "word": "sign" }, { "word": "signal" }, { "word": "prophet" } ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "77 23", "code": "af", "lang": "Afrikaans", "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something", "word": "voorbode" }, { "_dis1": "77 23", "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "predvestnik", "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "предвестник" }, { "_dis1": "77 23", "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "anunciador" }, { "_dis1": "77 23", "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "herald" }, { "_dis1": "77 23", "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something", "word": "預兆" }, { "_dis1": "77 23", "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "yùzhào", "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something", "word": "预兆" }, { "_dis1": "77 23", "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "zvěstovatel" }, { 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From Middle English herberjour, herbergeour, from Old French herbergeor (French hébergeur), from Frankish *heriberga (“lodging, inn”, literally “army shelter”), from Proto-West Germanic *harjabergu (“army camp, shelter”). Compare German Herberge, Italian albergo, Dutch herberg, English harbor. 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From Middle English herberjour, herbergeour, from Old French herbergeor (French hébergeur), from Frankish *heriberga (“lodging, inn”, literally “army shelter”), from Proto-West Germanic *harjabergu (“army camp, shelter”). Compare German Herberge, Italian albergo, Dutch herberg, English harbor. 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