- herald
- n1. messenger, envoy, runner, advance man, avant-courier, courier, scout, Mil. point man, front rider.2. precursor, predecessor, pioneer, forerunner, harbinger; sign, omen, portent, augury; indication, symptom, signal, ground waves, feeling in one's bones or in the air, gut feeling, intuition, anticipation; premonition, foreboding, forewarning, warning light, handwriting on the wall; prediction, prophecy, prognostication, auspice, augury.3. crier, town crier, bearer of tidings, announcer, reporter, broadcaster, proclaimer, trumpeter, extoller.v4. give tidings of, harbinger, announce, proclaim, trumpet, ballyhoo, beat the drum, promulgate, declare openly, call out, Scot, and North Eng. kithe; blurb, broadcast, air, make known, advertise, publish, print, publicize, bill; post, display, blazon, circularize; circulate, distribute, propagate, propagandize, spread, spread by word of mouth, disseminate.5. tell, state, inform, notify, give notice, apprise, signal; usher in, lead, lead the way, pave the way, prepare the way for.6. indicate, show, signify, mean, promise, bode; presage, prognosticate, portend, foreshow, foreshadow, foretoken, forebode, augur; forecast, predict, prophesy.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.