Herald

Noun

 * 1) A messenger, especially one bringing important news.
 * 2) * The herald blew his trumpet and shouted that the King was dead.
 * 3) A harbinger, giving signs of things to come.
 * 4) * Daffodils are heralds of Spring.
 * : An official whose speciality is heraldry, especially one between the ranks of pursuivant and king of arms.
 * 1) * Rouge Dragon is a herald at the College of Arms.

Synonyms

 * messenger
 * harbinger
 * pursuivant

Related terms

 * heraldic
 * heraldry

Verb

 * 1)  To proclaim, announce, etc. an event.
 * Daffodils herald the Spring.

Adjectives for Herald
pale; perfect; tempestuous; flame-tongued; sad-faced.

Thesaurus
Clarenceux, College of Arms, Gabriel, Garter, Lyon, Norroy, Norroy and Ulster, ancestor, announce, announcer, antecede, antecedent, antedate, anticipate, avant-garde, ballyhoo, be before, be early, bellwether, blare, blare forth, blaze, blaze abroad, blaze the trail, blazon, blazon about, break the trail, buccinator, buccinator novi temporis, bushwhacker, celebrate, come before, commissar, commissary, commissionaire, commissioner, courier, crier, cry, cry out, declaim, delegate, earl marshal, emissary, envoy, evangel, evangelist, explorer, forebear, foregoer, forerun, forerunner, foreshadower, foreshow, front runner, frontiersman, fugleman, give notice, go before, groundbreaker, guide, harbinger, herald abroad, herald angel, innovator, introduce, king at arms, king of arms, lead, lead runner, leader, legate, messenger, minister, mouthpiece, notify, official spokesman, outrider, pathfinder, pioneer, point, preannounce, precede, precedent, precurse, precursor, predate, predecessor, preexist, preindicate, premonitor, presage, presager, proclaim, prolocutor, prolocutress, prolocutrix, promulgate, rapporteur, reporter, run before, scout, secretary, shout, speaker, spokesman, spokeswoman, stormy petrel, thunder, thunder forth, trailblazer, trailbreaker, trumpet, trumpet forth, usher in, vanguard, vaunt-courier, voice, voortrekker

Etymology
From heraud, from  heraut, hiraut (French: héraut).

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Esperanto:
 * German: Verkündiger
 * Greek:
 * Macedonian:, весник (1), предвесник (2)


 * Japanese: ,
 * Polish: herold
 * Portuguese: arauto
 * Russian: герольд
 * Serbian: glasnik, vesnik
 * Spanish: heraldo


 * French:
 * German: Wappenherold, Wappenausleger
 * Greek: οικοσημολόγος
 * Italian:


 * Macedonian:
 * Portuguese:
 * : arauto
 * Spanish: heraldo

Verb

 * French:
 * Greek: προαναγγέλλω


 * Macedonian: предвестува, навестува

Anagrams

 * hardel