Definitions for harbingers

harbingers har·bin·ger

Spelling: [hahr-bin-jer]
IPA: /ˈhɑr bɪn dʒər/

Harbingers is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 724 anagrams from letters in harbingers (abeghinrrs).

Definitions for harbingers

noun

  1. a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald.
  2. anything that foreshadows a future event; omen; sign:
  3. a person sent in advance of troops, a royal train, etc., to provide or secure lodgings and other accommodations.

verb (used with object)

  1. to act as harbinger to; herald the coming of.

Origin of harbingers

1125-75; late Middle English herbenger, nasalized variant of Middle English herbegere, dissimilated variant of Old French herberg(i)ere host, equivalent to herberg(ier) to shelter (Germanic;

Examples for harbingers

Could it be a harbinger of what el-Sisi hopes to accomplish in Egypt?

And as such, it bears closer inspection, if only because it may be a harbinger of conservative attacks to come.

John was the harbinger not alone of the kingdom but of the King; and to him the King in person came.

Thus, therefore, did this harbinger of evil news resume the situation.

He looked like a harbinger of tempest, a shipmate of the Flying Dutchman.

In fact the vanishing sea is a warning: a harbinger of the long feared war over water in Central Asia.

The hour of triumph is often but the harbinger of defeat and shame.

May have been a harbinger of November contests… in pointlessness and cost.

I once beheld it as the harbinger of happiness, as the temple of integrity and innocence.

Whether this three-day system is a harbinger of seasonal weather changes is uncertain.

Word Value for harbingers
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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