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heraldnoun a person who actively supports or favors a causean outspoken herald of prison reform advocate, advocator, apostle, backer, booster, champion, espouser, exponent, expounder, friend, gospeler(or gospeller), hierophant, high priest, paladin, promoter, proponent, protagonist, supporter, true believer, tub-thumper, white knight loyalist, partisan(also partizan), stalwartadherent, cohort, disciple, followerinterpreterapplauder, cheerleader, encourager, fellow traveler adversary, antagonist, opponent enemy, foe, rivalbelittler, critic, faultfinder one that announces or indicates the later arrival of anotherthe American robin—the herald of spring in the North angel, foregoer, forerunner, harbinger, outrider, precursor foreboder, foreshadower, foretaste, forewarningadvertiser, announcer, blazoner, crier, proclaimercourier, messenger, runneraugury, auspice, boding, foreboding, foreshadowing, omen, portent, prefiguring, presagemark, sign, symptombellwether to give a slight indication of beforehandthe reshuffle of the company's management heralded the sweeping changes to come adumbrate, forerun, foreshadow, harbinger, prefigure anticipate, foreknow, foreseeforecast, foretell, predict, prognosticate, prophesyforewarnaugur, bode, forebode(also forbode), portend, presage, promiseallude, connote, hint, imply, insinuate, intimate, suggest to make known openly or publiclyherald the great tidings to all the world advertise, announce, annunciate, blare, blaze, blazon, broadcast, declare, enunciate, flash, give out, placard, post, proclaim, promulgate, publicize, publish, release, sound, trumpet bark, call (off or out), crybill, billboard, bulletin, gazette(chiefly British)knell, ring, tollblurb, feature, pitch, plug, promote, puffdisseminate, spreaddisclose, divulge, introduce, kithe(chiefly Scottish), manifest, report, reveal, showadvise, apprise, hand down, inform, notifycommunicate, impart, intimate beat the drum (for or about), run with conceal, hush (up), silence, suppress, withholdrecall, recant, retract, revoke n.forerunner, precursor, harbinger, herald mean one that goes before or announces the coming of another.forerunner is applicable to anything that serves as a sign or presage.the blockade was the forerunner of war precursor applies to a person or thing paving the way for the success or accomplishment of another.18th century poets like Burns were precursors of the Romantics harbinger and herald both apply, chiefly figuratively, to one that proclaims or announces the coming or arrival of a notable event.their early victory was the harbinger of a winning season the herald of a new age in medicine in the 14th century |