| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | har·bin·ger |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  här b n-j r |
| NOUN: | One that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; a forerunner. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: har·bin·gered, har·bin·ger·ing, har·bin·gers
To signal the approach of; presage. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English herbengar, person sent ahead to arrange lodgings, from Old French herbergeor, from herbergier, to provide lodging for, from herberge, lodging, of Germanic origin. See koro- in Appendix I.
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