harbinger
heraldo
definition
noun
witch hazels are the harbingers of spring
a person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another.
translation of 'harbinger'
verb
anunciar
noun
heraldo,
nuncio,
precursor,
presagio
example
these works were not yet opera but they were the most important 'harbinger' of opera
Everyone spoke about the heat, not really sure if it was a springtime anomaly or a 'harbinger' of summer.
One might take him as a premature 'harbinger' of cultural studies, but for his important flaw of attachment to art.
It's just that its call is the 'harbinger' of spring - a signal to start chucking chlorine into the swimming pool.
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.
these works were not yet opera, but they were the most important 'harbinger' of opera
It's the first crack of the bat that's the true 'harbinger' of spring.
Last Sunday I heard the unmistakable sound of the first cuckoo, traditional 'harbinger' of a spring election.
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.
Those examples of working across different media are the most important to understand, as they are the 'harbinger' of the future.
Monday's rallies would be important only if they are a 'harbinger' of much bigger and more confrontational demonstrations down the road.
Insiders say that rumblings behind the scenes at ABC's ‘Nightline’ are 'harbingers' of possible dramatic news about the show's future.
Here in Minnesota, we've seen some 'harbingers' of spring too, albeit on a slower schedule - slush in the streets, dirty cars, shrinking snowpiles.
They all seemed to be omens to me, 'harbingers' of misfortune, only multiplying the dread I was beginning to feel already for Monday.
Where the anti-terrorists panic about evil individuals sneaking on to flights and doing bad things, the bird-flu worriers see all people moving around the world as the potential 'harbingers' of death and disease.
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.
Caucasian men are either evil skirt-chasers OR the 'harbingers' of a greater civilisation - but only in their own minds.
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.
In a way then, you could almost call them 'harbingers' of innovation… like wars have been for all of humanity's history…
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.
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.
Pioneers of bushwalking and advocates of national parks were the 'harbingers' of an engagement with nature that at last offered respect for and restitution of the environment.
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.
Post colonial studies have flourished in an age where IMF and World Bank austerity programmes have been renounced as 'harbingers' of neo imperialism.
The most obvious 'harbingers' of a life running off the rails - drugs, booze, gambling - don't seem to have figured in Rondestvedt's downfall.
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.
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?
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.
Credits: Google Translate
