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Plural of harbinger

regular plural

The plural of harbinger is harbingers.

Forms of harbinger

Singularharbinger /ˈhɑːbɪndʒə/
Pluralharbingers
Countablecountable

Harbingers in a sentence

  • The organ-grinders were at work; but they were always precocious harbingers.1903–1906, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Easter of the Soul”, in The Voice of the City, complete edition, Garden City…. From the entry organ grinder

Meaning of harbinger

  1. noun A person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something.
  2. noun One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when travelling, to provide and prepare lodgings.
  3. verb To announce or precede; to be a harbinger of.

Full definition of harbinger

Questions about the plural of harbinger

What is the plural of harbinger?
The plural of harbinger is harbingers.
Is harbinger countable?
Harbinger is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: harbinger (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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