harbinger
petanda
definition
noun
witch hazels are the harbingers of spring
a person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another.
example
The Nasdaq correction is a major signal, but not the 'harbinger' of disaster.
In this way, Wislicenus stands as a 'harbinger' of a physical chemical, mechanistic approach to organic structure.
It's just that its call is the 'harbinger' of spring - a signal to start chucking chlorine into the swimming pool.
It's the first crack of the bat that's the true 'harbinger' of spring.
these works were not yet opera but they were the most important 'harbinger' of opera
Monday's rallies would be important only if they are a 'harbinger' of much bigger and more confrontational demonstrations down the road.
Last Sunday I heard the unmistakable sound of the first cuckoo, traditional 'harbinger' of a spring election.
Everyone spoke about the heat, not really sure if it was a springtime anomaly or a 'harbinger' of summer.
Those examples of working across different media are the most important to understand, as they are the 'harbinger' of the future.
One might take him as a premature 'harbinger' of cultural studies, but for his important flaw of attachment to art.
these works were not yet opera, but they were the most important 'harbinger' of opera
IBM's warning last week was one of several negative signals from the industry and may be a 'harbinger' of the earnings reports to come.
The huge rally in the bond market last Thursday, in spite of renewed dollar weakness, could be a 'harbinger' of something very important.
Rooks are the 'harbingers' of spring and many people would love to have a rookery nearby, as we have at Penpergwm.
Insiders say that rumblings behind the scenes at ABC's ‘Nightline’ are 'harbingers' of possible dramatic news about the show's future.
I am told I am on Prospero's Isle, where the scent of the cempak flower is said to ease the pains of the world, where frangipani blooms rain down as 'harbingers' of a storm, where even the poverty is wrapped in shiny banana leaves.
You see, when you look at the number in terms of consumer confidence, consumer spending, there are good 'harbingers' in terms of how people are feeling about the economy.
In addition, there have been well-publicised 'harbingers' both of incipient ethnic conflict and of strong mass opposition to a long-term US military presence and a US-chosen Iraqi Government.
For a moment our man wondered whether the black clouds were 'harbingers' of some unforeseen ill omen, symbolic as they were of the darkness, representing the unknown.
Despite the 'harbingers' of doom the demand for electricity in Ireland continues to increase, Mr McManus told the Cork Chamber of Commerce business breakfast in association with the Irish Examiner.
Caucasian men are either evil skirt-chasers OR the 'harbingers' of a greater civilisation - but only in their own minds.
Yet the fact that a few Nazis admired classical architects doesn't mean that classical architects are, perforce, the 'harbingers' of totalitarianism.
Post colonial studies have flourished in an age where IMF and World Bank austerity programmes have been renounced as 'harbingers' of neo imperialism.
The crows are great as 'harbingers' of spring but wear out their welcome quickly by shamelessly eating songbird eggs and cawing endlessly about absolutely nothing on the oaks surrounding my yard.
The car keeps London gridlocked into a dysfunctional twentieth century, lending support for Ballard's view that it is the suburbs, not the metropolises, which are the 'harbingers' of the future.
Najaf governor Ali al-Zurufi has just announced that he sees the 'harbingers' of a settlement of the crisis.
Through sleet and rain, through 25 cm of April snow, through the buzz of locusts, we turn to these weather prognosticators for 'harbingers' of better times.
Here in Minnesota, we've seen some 'harbingers' of spring too, albeit on a slower schedule - slush in the streets, dirty cars, shrinking snowpiles.
Those welcome 'harbingers' of Spring, daffodils, are in some sheltered sun traps starting to display buds which will soon burst into golden bloom to signal the imminent curtain call for the Winter season.
They all seemed to be omens to me, 'harbingers' of misfortune, only multiplying the dread I was beginning to feel already for Monday.
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