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herald
herald is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 10 · 11 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
A proclaimer; one who, or that which, publishes or announces; as, the herald of another's fame.
- 4noun
A forerunner; a a precursor; a harbinger.
- 5noun
Any messenger.
- 6transitive verb
To introduce, or give tidings of, as by a herald; to proclaim; to announce; to foretell; to usher in.
- 7noun
something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone
- 8noun
(formal) a person who announces important news
"the chieftain had a herald who announced his arrival with a trumpet"
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- 9verb
praise vociferously
"The critics hailed the young pianist as a new Rubinstein"
- 10verb
greet enthusiastically or joyfully
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- 11verb
foreshadow or presage
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