Usually means: Omen or sign of future.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word harbinger:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. harbinger: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. harbinger: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. harbinger: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. harbinger: Collins English Dictionary
  5. harbinger: Vocabulary.com
  6. Harbinger, harbinger: Wordnik
  7. harbinger: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. harbinger: Wiktionary
  9. harbinger: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. harbinger: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. harbinger: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Harbinger, harbinger: Dictionary.com
  13. harbinger: Online Etymology Dictionary
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  15. Harbinger: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. harbinger: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. harbinger: Rhymezone
  18. Harbinger: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. harbinger: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. harbinger: Free Dictionary
  21. harbinger: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. harbinger: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. harbinger: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Harbinger: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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

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  1. harbinger: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. harbinger: A Word A Day
  2. harbinger: Idioms

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

(Note: See harbingered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something.
noun:  (obsolete) One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when travelling, to provide and prepare lodgings.
verb:  (transitive) To announce or precede; to be a harbinger of.

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