Definition:
(adj) Signaler of things to come. One that foreshadows or warns of a change.
Quote:
There 's a huge, fat, religious gentleman coming up, sir. He says he's but a friar, but he 's big enough to be a pope ; his gills are as rosy as a turkey cock ; his great belly walks in state before him, like an harbinger; and his gouty legs come limping after it...
From The Spanish Friar, a John Dryden play, written in the seventeenth century.Pronunciation:
HAR – bin - jer
Examples:
Low pressure is generally a harbinger of bad weather.
I hope that storm cloud isn't a harbinger of our test results.
