1. Foreshadow or presage
   - announce, annunciate, harbinger, foretell 
2. Praise vociferously
   - acclaim, hail 
3. Greet enthusiastically or joyfully
   - hail

1. (formal) a person who announces important news
   "the chieftain had a herald who announced his arrival with a trumpet"
   - trumpeter 
2. Something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone
   - harbinger, forerunner, predecessor, precursor

Derived forms: heralding, heralds, heralded

Type of: applaud, courier, greet, indicant, indication, messenger, recognise [Brit], recognize, tell

Encyclopedia: Herald Herald, California

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