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harbingered

harbingered is the simple past and past participle of harbinger.

Meaning of harbinger

Verb

harbinger (third-person singular simple present harbingers, present participle harbingering, simple past and past participle harbingered)

  1. (transitive) To announce or precede; to be a harbinger of.
    • It was harbingered also by the terrible comet of January, which appeared in a cadent and obscure house, denoting sickness and death; […]1841, William Harrison Ainsworth, chapter VIII, in Old Saint Paul's, published 1903, page 94
    Synonyms:
    herald

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Questions about harbingered

What is harbingered the simple past and past participle of?
Harbingered is the simple past and past participle of harbinger.

Words near harbingered in the dictionary

  1. Harbin
  2. harbinge
  3. harbinged
  4. harbinger
  5. harbinger-of-spring
  6. harbingered
  7. harbingering
  8. harbingers
  9. harbingership
  10. harbinges
  11. harbinging

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Adapted from Wiktionary: harbingered (page history and authors); harbinger (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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