verb
- past tense of harbinger; to be a sign or warning of something that is about to happen
Usage: usually used in passive voice or as an adjective describing something that preceded an event
Examples
- The dark clouds harbingered the coming storm.
- Early signs harbingered the company's eventual collapse.
- The mild winter harbingered an early spring.
- Strange noises harbingered the arrival of the guests.
- The economic indicators harbingered a recession.
- These small tremors harbingered the major earthquake that followed.