Word.ws English Dictionary

harbingers

harbingers is the plural of harbinger.

Meaning of harbinger

Noun

harbinger (plural harbingers)

  1. A person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something.
    • harbinger of danger; harbinger of doom; harbinger of spring
  2. (obsolete) One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when travelling, to provide and prepare lodgings.
    • outward decency […] is the Harbinger to provide the lodging for inward holinesse1644, Thomas Fuller, "Truth Maintained" (a sermon)

See all 3 meanings of harbinger

Questions about harbingers

What is harbingers the plural of?
Harbingers is the plural of harbinger.

Words near harbingers in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: harbingers (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-harbingers.wav.

Cite this entry: “harbingers.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/harbingers. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.