Usually means: Messenger announcing news or events.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word herald:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. herald: Merriam-Webster
  2. herald: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. herald: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. herald: Collins English Dictionary
  5. herald: Vocabulary.com
  6. Herald, herald: Wordnik
  7. herald: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Herald, herald: Wiktionary
  9. herald: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. herald: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. herald: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Herald, herald: Dictionary.com
  13. herald: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. herald: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Herald (Community of Christ), Herald (Pakistan), Herald (disambiguation), Herald (newspaper), Herald (newspaper) (disambiguation), Herald, The Herald (Adelaide), The Herald (Australia), The Herald (Everett), The Herald (Glasgow), The Herald (Ireland), The Herald (Malaysian Catholic Weekly), The Herald (Melbourne), The Herald (Pakistan), The Herald (Plymouth), The Herald (Rock Hill), The Herald (Scotland), The Herald (Sharon), The Herald (South Africa), The Herald (Zimbabwe), The herald (moth), The herald: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Herald: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. herald: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. herald: Rhymezone
  19. Herald: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. herald: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. herald: FreeDictionary.org
  22. herald: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. herald: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. herald: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. herald: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. herald: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. HERALD: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Herald: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. herald: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See heralded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A messenger, especially one bringing important news.
noun:  A harbinger, giving signs of things to come.
noun:  (heraldry) An official whose speciality is heraldry, especially one between the ranks of pursuivant and king-of-arms
noun:  (entomology) A moth of the species Scoliopteryx libatrix.
noun:  (advertising) A handbill consisting of an advertisement.
verb:  (transitive) To proclaim or announce an event.
verb:  (transitive, usually passive) To greet something with excitement; to hail.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
noun:  Alternative form of hareld (“long-tailed duck”) [(UK, archaic) A long-tailed duck, of species Clangula hyemalis.]

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