harbinger
nounEtymology
Originally, a person sent in advance to arrange lodgings. From Middle English herberjour, herbergeour, from Old French herbergeor (French hébergeur), from herbergier (“to set up camp; to shelter; to take shelter”) + -or (suffix forming agent nouns), from Old High German heribergan, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *harjabergu (“army camp, shelter”). Compare German Herberge, Italian albergo, Dutch herberg, English harbor. More at here, borrow.
- inherited from *harjabergu✻
- derived from heribergan
- derived from herbergeor
- inherited from herberjour
Definitions
A person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something.
- harbinger of danger; harbinger of doom; harbinger of spring
- Make all our Trumpets ſpeak, giue thẽ all breath / Thoſe clamorous Harbingers of Blood, & Death
- I knew by these harbingers who were coming.
One who provides lodgings
One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when travelling, to provide and prepare lodgings.
- outward decency […] is the Harbinger to provide the lodging for inward holinesse
To announce or precede
To announce or precede; to be a harbinger of.
- It was harbingered also by the terrible comet of January, which appeared in a cadent and obscure house, denoting sickness and death; […]
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at harbinger. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at harbinger. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
6 hops · closes at harbinger
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA