Synonyms of harbingers

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noun

plural of harbinger

as in forerunners

one that announces or indicates the later arrival of another

her father's successful job interview was seen as a harbinger of better times to come

Synonyms & Similar Words

• forerunners
• heralds
• precursors
• signs
• symptoms
• angels
• outriders
• foretastes
• messengers
• portents
• forewarnings
• foregoers
• omens
• criers
• proclaimers
• advertisers
• runners
• foreshadowings
• presages
• announcers
• forebodings
• bellwethers
• auguries
• couriers
• auspices
• foreboders
• bodings
• foreshadowers
• blazoners
• marks

harbingers

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verb

present tense third-person singular of harbinger

as in heralds

to give a slight indication of beforehand

the hope that the housing slump does not harbinger a general economic recession

Synonyms & Similar Words

• heralds
• foreshadows
• predicts
• implies
• prefigures
• adumbrates
• anticipates
• foresees
• foreruns
• foretells
• portends
• suggests
• presages
• prophesies
• forecasts
• bodes
• forebodes
• hints
• prognosticates
• augurs
• promises
• alludes
• forewarns
• foreknows
• connotes
• intimates
• forbodes
• insinuates