Definitions for Herald

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Herald her·ald

Spelling: [her-uh ld]

IPA: /ˈhɛr əld/

Herald is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 123 anagrams from letters in Herald (adehlr).

Definitions for Herald

noun

1. (formerly) a royal or official messenger, especially one representing a monarch in an ambassadorial capacity during wartime.
2. a person or thing that precedes or comes before; forerunner; harbinger:
3. a person or thing that proclaims or announces:
4. (in the Middle Ages) an officer who arranged tournaments and other functions, announced challenges, marshaled combatants, etc., and who was later employed also to arrange processions, funerals, etc., and to regulate the use of armorial bearings.
5. an official intermediate in rank between a king-of-arms and a pursuivant, in the Heralds' College in England or the Heralds' Office in Scotland.

verb (used with object)

1. to give news or tidings of; announce; proclaim:
2. to indicate or signal the coming of; usher in.

Origin of Herald

1300-50; Middle English herau(l)d Old French herau(l)t Frankish *heriwald, equivalent to *heri army + *wald commander (see wield). Compare name Examples for Herald

Hinde had recently been appointed editor of the Evening herald.

A smaller headline in the herald Tribune stated that Black September, headed by Ali Salameh, had taken credit for the operation.

The herald asked her to be a freelance reporter, but not because of her notorious status.

One of the reporters from New York was Herbert Bayard Swope, then of the herald.

When she came to Plattville, he told her what the editor of the "herald" had done for him.

Her broad back had been unrecognized by the herald, careless in her haste.

Check: “This atom smashing business is going to herald the final victory of the machine.”

It thinks that the herald is not the leading paper, though it may have Ben-it.

Foss occasionally supplied pulpits in Baltimore and its suburbs, to the derision of the herald agnostics.

He felt much happier when he left the herald offices than he had felt when he entered them.