| Definitions | harbinger
noun
- A person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something.
Translations: - Dutch: (t, nl, voorbode, m)
- German: (i, person) Vorbote , (i, thing) Omen
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- Italian: (i, person) messaggero , araldo , (i, thing) presagio <ref>Oxford-Paravia Concise - Dizionario Inglese-Italiano e Italiano-Inglese. Edited by Maria Cristina Bareggi. Torino: Paravia, 2003 (in collaboration with Oxford University Press). W:Wikipedia:book sources, ISBN 8839551107. Online version at http://www.oxfordparavia.it/</ref>
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verb
- (transitive) To announce; to be a harbinger of.
Translations: - Dutch: (t, nl, aankondigen)
- German: ankí¼ndigen
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- Italian: annunciare, presagire
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Etymology: Originally, a person that is sent in advance to provide lodgings. From herbergeour < herbergeor < herberge "army encampment". Compare German Herberge, Dutch herberg.
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