harbinger

Other forms of harbinger

plural

harbingers·

past tense

harbingerred·

present participle

harbingerring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about harbinger

What does harbinger mean?

harbinger means "something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in harbinger?

harbinger has 3 syllables: har-bin-ger. The stress falls on "har". In IPA it is /ˈhɑɹbɪndʒɚ/.

What is another word for harbinger?

Close synonyms include forerunner, predecessor, herald, precursor, announce. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is harbinger a common word?

harbinger is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.