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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈhɑːbɪndʒə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈhɑɹbɪnd͡ʒəɹ/ [US] Audio: en-us-harbinger.ogg Forms: harbingers [plural]
enPR: härʹbĭnjər [US] Etymology: Originally, a person that is sent in advance to arrange lodgings. 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. More at here, borrow. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*ker-|*bʰergʰ-}}, {{inh|en|enm|herberjour}} Middle English herberjour, {{der|en|fro|herbergeor}} Old French herbergeor, {{cog|fr|hébergeur}} French hébergeur, {{der|en|frk|*heriberga||lodging, inn|lit=army shelter}} Frankish *heriberga (“lodging, inn”, literally “army shelter”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*harjabergu||army camp, shelter}} Proto-West Germanic *harjabergu (“army camp, shelter”), {{cog|de|Herberge}} German Herberge, {{cog|it|albergo}} Italian albergo, {{cog|nl|herberg}} Dutch herberg, {{cog|en|harbor}} English harbor Head templates: {{en-noun}} harbinger (plural harbingers)
  1. A person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something. Synonyms: forewarning, herald, omen, premonition, sign, signal, prophet Translations (that which foretells the coming of something): voorbode (Afrikaans), предвестник (predvestnik) [masculine] (Bulgarian), anunciador [masculine] (Catalan), herald [masculine] (Catalan), 預兆 (Chinese Mandarin), 预兆 (yùzhào) (Chinese Mandarin), zvěstovatel [masculine] (Czech), varsel [neuter] (Danish), forvarsel [neuter] (Danish), voorbode [masculine] (Dutch), omeno (Esperanto), airut (Finnish), sanansaattaja (Finnish), présage [masculine] (French), Vorbote [masculine, person] (German), Omen (english: thing) [neuter] (German), Vorzeichen [neuter] (German), προάγγελος (proángelos) [masculine] (Greek), πρόδρομος (pródromos) [masculine] (Greek), előjel (Hungarian), előfutár (Hungarian), előhírnök (Hungarian), boðberi [masculine] (Icelandic), fyrirboði [masculine] (Icelandic), undanfari [masculine] (Icelandic), réamhtheachtaire [masculine] (Irish), messaggero [masculine, person] (Italian), araldo [masculine] (Italian), presagio (english: thing) [masculine] (Italian), precursore (Italian), foriero (Italian), profeta [masculine] (Italian), premonitore [masculine] (Italian), premonitrice [feminine] (Italian), 前触れ (maebure) (alt: まえぶれ) (Japanese), 선구자 (seon'guja) (Korean), 전조 (jeonjo) (Korean), praenuntius [masculine] (Latin), forsmak (Norwegian), zwiastun [masculine] (Polish), arauto [plural] (Portuguese), presságio (Portuguese), провозве́стник (provozvéstnik) [masculine] (Russian), предве́стник (predvéstnik) [masculine] (Russian), predšasnik (Serbo-Croatian), najava (Serbo-Croatian), navesnik (Serbo-Croatian), nagovest (Serbo-Croatian), nagoveštaj (Serbo-Croatian), anunciador [masculine] (Spanish), anunciante [masculine] (Spanish), heraldo [masculine] (Spanish), förebud (Swedish), förlöpare (Swedish), cennad [masculine] (Welsh), rhagredegydd [masculine] (Welsh)
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  2. (obsolete) One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when travelling, to provide and prepare lodgings. Tags: obsolete
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: harbinger-of-spring

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈhɑːbɪndʒə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈhɑɹbɪnd͡ʒəɹ/ [US] Audio: en-us-harbinger.ogg Forms: harbingers [present, singular, third-person], harbingering [participle, present], harbingered [participle, past], harbingered [past]
enPR: härʹbĭnjər [US] Etymology: Originally, a person that is sent in advance to arrange lodgings. 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. More at here, borrow. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*ker-|*bʰergʰ-}}, {{inh|en|enm|herberjour}} Middle English herberjour, {{der|en|fro|herbergeor}} Old French herbergeor, {{cog|fr|hébergeur}} French hébergeur, {{der|en|frk|*heriberga||lodging, inn|lit=army shelter}} Frankish *heriberga (“lodging, inn”, literally “army shelter”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*harjabergu||army camp, shelter}} Proto-West Germanic *harjabergu (“army camp, shelter”), {{cog|de|Herberge}} German Herberge, {{cog|it|albergo}} Italian albergo, {{cog|nl|herberg}} Dutch herberg, {{cog|en|harbor}} English harbor Head templates: {{en-verb}} harbinger (third-person singular simple present harbingers, present participle harbingering, simple past and past participle harbingered)
  1. (transitive) To announce or precede; to be a harbinger of. Tags: transitive Synonyms: herald Related terms: bellwether Translations (to announce): предвещавам (predveštavam) (Bulgarian), anunciar (Catalan), zvěstovat [imperfective] (Czech), věstit [imperfective] (Czech), aankondigen (Dutch), annoncer (French), présager (French), ankündigen (German), προαναγγέλλω (proanangéllo) (Greek), annunciare (Italian), presagire (Italian), premonire (Italian), profetizzare (Italian), innvarsle (Norwegian), предвеща́ть (predveščátʹ) (Russian), anunciar (Spanish), förebåda (Swedish), varsla (Swedish)
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Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "Make all our Trumpets ſpeak, giue thẽ all breath / Thoſe clamorous Harbingers of Blood, & Death",
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          "text": "I knew by these harbingers who were coming.",
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          "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.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something."
      ],
      "links": [
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          "foreshadow",
          "foreshadow"
        ],
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          "foretell",
          "foretell"
        ]
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        {
          "word": "forewarning"
        },
        {
          "word": "herald"
        },
        {
          "word": "omen"
        },
        {
          "word": "premonition"
        },
        {
          "word": "sign"
        },
        {
          "word": "signal"
        },
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          "word": "prophet"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1644, Thomas Fuller, \"Truth Maintained\" (a sermon)",
          "text": "outward decency […] is the Harbinger to provide the lodging for inward holinesse"
        }
      ],
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        "One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when travelling, to provide and prepare lodgings."
      ],
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        "(obsolete) One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when travelling, to provide and prepare lodgings."
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      ]
    },
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      "enpr": "härʹbĭnjər",
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        "US"
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    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "word": "voorbode"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "predvestnik",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "предвестник"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anunciador"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "herald"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "word": "預兆"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yùzhào",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "word": "预兆"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zvěstovatel"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "varsel"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "forvarsel"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "voorbode"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "word": "omeno"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "word": "airut"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "word": "sanansaattaja"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "présage"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "person"
      ],
      "word": "Vorbote"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "english": "thing",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Omen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Vorzeichen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "proángelos",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "προάγγελος"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "pródromos",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "πρόδρομος"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "word": "előjel"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "word": "előfutár"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "word": "előhírnök"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "boðberi"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fyrirboði"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "undanfari"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "réamhtheachtaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "person"
      ],
      "word": "messaggero"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "araldo"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "english": "thing",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "presagio"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "word": "precursore"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "word": "foriero"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "profeta"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "premonitore"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "premonitrice"
    },
    {
      "alt": "まえぶれ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "maebure",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "word": "前触れ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "seon'guja",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "word": "선구자"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "jeonjo",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "word": "전조"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "praenuntius"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "word": "forsmak"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zwiastun"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "arauto"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "word": "presságio"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "provozvéstnik",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "провозве́стник"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "predvéstnik",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "предве́стник"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "word": "predšasnik"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "word": "najava"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "word": "navesnik"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "word": "nagovest"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "word": "nagoveštaj"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anunciador"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anunciante"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "heraldo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "word": "förebud"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "word": "förlöpare"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cennad"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "that which foretells the coming of something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rhagredegydd"
    }
  ],
  "word": "harbinger"
}

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    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
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    "English verbs",
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    "Pages with 1 entry",
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    "Terms with Afrikaans translations",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Catalan translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Danish translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Icelandic translations",
    "Terms with Irish translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Korean translations",
    "Terms with Latin translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Welsh translations"
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        "2": "hébergeur"
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        "3": "*heriberga",
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      "name": "cog"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "albergo"
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      "expansion": "Italian albergo",
      "name": "cog"
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      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
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      "form": "harbingers",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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      "form": "harbingering",
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        "present"
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      "form": "harbingered",
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      "form": "harbingered",
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    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "bellwether"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "categories": [
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          "ref": "1841, William Harrison Ainsworth, chapter VIII, in Old Saint Paul's, published 1903, page 94:",
          "text": "It was harbingered also by the terrible comet of January, which appeared in a cadent and obscure house, denoting sickness and death; […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "To announce or precede; to be a harbinger of."
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        "(transitive) To announce or precede; to be a harbinger of."
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        {
          "word": "herald"
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        "transitive"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhɑːbɪndʒə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
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      "enpr": "härʹbĭnjər",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhɑɹbɪnd͡ʒəɹ/",
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        "US"
      ]
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "predveštavam",
      "sense": "to announce",
      "word": "предвещавам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to announce",
      "word": "anunciar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to announce",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "zvěstovat"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to announce",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "věstit"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to announce",
      "word": "aankondigen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to announce",
      "word": "annoncer"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to announce",
      "word": "présager"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to announce",
      "word": "ankündigen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "proanangéllo",
      "sense": "to announce",
      "word": "προαναγγέλλω"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to announce",
      "word": "annunciare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to announce",
      "word": "presagire"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to announce",
      "word": "premonire"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to announce",
      "word": "profetizzare"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "to announce",
      "word": "innvarsle"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "predveščátʹ",
      "sense": "to announce",
      "word": "предвеща́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to announce",
      "word": "anunciar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to announce",
      "word": "förebåda"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to announce",
      "word": "varsla"
    }
  ],
  "word": "harbinger"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.