harbinger
ഏലിയ
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.
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.
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.
In this way, Wislicenus stands as a 'harbinger' of a physical chemical, mechanistic approach to organic structure.
The huge rally in the bond market last Thursday, in spite of renewed dollar weakness, could be a 'harbinger' of something very important.
these works were not yet opera but they were the most important 'harbinger' of opera
Those examples of working across different media are the most important to understand, as they are the 'harbinger' of the future.
these works were not yet opera, but they were the most important 'harbinger' of opera
It's just that its call is the 'harbinger' of spring - a signal to start chucking chlorine into the swimming pool.
One might take him as a premature 'harbinger' of cultural studies, but for his important flaw of attachment to art.
It's the first crack of the bat that's the true 'harbinger' of spring.
Everyone spoke about the heat, not really sure if it was a springtime anomaly or a 'harbinger' of summer.
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.
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.
Come now, what else could I possibly say about a weblog which argues that Girls Aloud - ‘the anti-Carrie Bradshaws’ - are the 'harbingers' of a new punk revolution?
Insiders say that rumblings behind the scenes at ABC's ‘Nightline’ are 'harbingers' of possible dramatic news about the show's future.
Post colonial studies have flourished in an age where IMF and World Bank austerity programmes have been renounced as 'harbingers' of neo imperialism.
Indeed, during the last decade the chief 'harbingers' of leftist ideas have been the cosmopolitan intellectuals rather than the working class for whom they were intended.
Rooks are the 'harbingers' of spring and many people would love to have a rookery nearby, as we have at Penpergwm.
Najaf governor Ali al-Zurufi has just announced that he sees the 'harbingers' of a settlement of the crisis.
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.
They all seemed to be omens to me, 'harbingers' of misfortune, only multiplying the dread I was beginning to feel already for Monday.
Caucasian men are either evil skirt-chasers OR the 'harbingers' of a greater civilisation - but only in their own minds.
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.
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.
Here there are obvious earth shapes that tell of a village abandoned in the seventeenth century, and we saw a lovely patch of snowdrops and aconites, the prettiest 'harbingers' of spring.
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.
Here in Minnesota, we've seen some 'harbingers' of spring too, albeit on a slower schedule - slush in the streets, dirty cars, shrinking snowpiles.
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.
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