Herald
['her(ə)ld] or ['hɛrəld]
Definition
(noun.) (formal) a person who announces important news; 'the chieftain had a herald who announced his arrival with a trumpet'.
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Definition
(n.) An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character.
(n.) In the Middle Ages, the officer charged with the above duties, and also with the care of genealogies, of the rights and privileges of noble families, and especially of armorial bearings. In modern times, some vestiges of this office remain, especially in England. See Heralds' College (below), and King-at-Arms.
(n.) A proclaimer; one who, or that which, publishes or announces; as, the herald of another's fame.
(n.) A forerunner; a a precursor; a harbinger.
(n.) Any messenger.
(v. t.) To introduce, or give tidings of, as by a herald; to proclaim; to announce; to foretell; to usher in.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Proclaimer, publisher, crier.[2]. Forerunner, precursor, harbinger.
v. a. Proclaim, announce, publish.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See HARBINGER]
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Definition
n. in ancient times an officer who made public proclamations and arranged ceremonies: in medieval times an officer who had charge of all the etiquette of chivalry keeping a register of the genealogies and armorial bearings of the nobles: an officer whose duty is to read proclamations to blazon the arms of the nobility &c.: a proclaimer: a forerunner: the red-breasted merganser usually Her′ald-duck.—v.t. to introduce as by a herald: to proclaim.—adj. Heral′dic of or relating to heralds or heraldry.—adv. Heral′dically.—ns. Her′aldry the art or office of a herald: the science of recording genealogies and blazoning coats of arms; Her′aldship.—Heralds' College (see College).
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Examples
- In this place I will print an article which I wrote for the New York Herald the night we arrived. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Go, herald, and ask her whether she expects any one to do battle for her in this her cause. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- On the latter date a full-page article appeared in the New York Herald which so intensified the excited feeling that Mr. Edison deemed it advisable to make a public exhibition. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Among the five or six buildings supplied with the new lighting were the _Herald_ offices and the Drexel Building, at the time one of New York City’s show places. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The newsboy found an old hand-press and began to print a paper himself, called the _Grand Trunk Herald_, and sold it to the employees and regular passengers on his line. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- De Long, who had an earnest and protracted conversation with Edison over the Arctic expedition he was undertaking with the aid of Mr. James Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I think I could get the assistant editorship of the Levant Herald, but I am going to try to worry along without it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Epidemic diseases, I believed, were often heralded by a gasping, sobbing, tormented, long-lamenting east wind. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- What a union of mighty forces was heralded in this simple announcement! William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The application of machinery in the harvest-field had begun with the embryonic reaper, while both the bicycle and the automobile were heralded in primitive prototypes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The real fighting was heralded by trumpets. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The heralds of this gospel were acutely conscious of the evils of the social estate in which they found themselves. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The heralds then proclaimed silence until the laws of the tourney should be rehearsed. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The pause in the tournament was still uninterrupted, excepting by the voices of the heralds exclaiming--Love of ladies, splintering of lances! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- This proclamation having been made, the heralds withdrew to their stations. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The decision was then taken not by the majority of the citizens, but by the majority of tribes, and it was announced by the heralds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The heralds finished their proclamation with their usual cry of Largesse, largesse, gallant knights! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- And between every pause was heard the voice of the heralds, exclaiming, Fight on, brave knights! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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