HERALD
\hˈɛɹə͡ld], \hˈɛɹəld], \h_ˈɛ_ɹ_əl_d]\
Definitions of HERALD
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character.
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In the Middle Ages, the officer charged with the above duties, and also with the care of genealogies, of the rights and privileges of noble families, and especially of armorial bearings. In modern times, some vestiges of this office remain, especially in England. See Heralds' College (below), and King-at-Arms.
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A proclaimer; one who, or that which, publishes or announces; as, the herald of another's fame.
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A forerunner; a a precursor; a harbinger.
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Any messenger.
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To introduce, or give tidings of, as by a herald; to proclaim; to announce; to foretell; to usher in.
By Oddity Software
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An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character.
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In the Middle Ages, the officer charged with the above duties, and also with the care of genealogies, of the rights and privileges of noble families, and especially of armorial bearings. In modern times, some vestiges of this office remain, especially in England. See Heralds' College (below), and King-at-Arms.
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A proclaimer; one who, or that which, publishes or announces; as, the herald of another's fame.
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A forerunner; a a precursor; a harbinger.
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Any messenger.
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To introduce, or give tidings of, as by a herald; to proclaim; to announce; to foretell; to usher in.
By Noah Webster.
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Formerly, an official who proclaimed peace and war, bore messages, etc.; a forerunner; harbinger; any messenger.
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To introduce; proclaim; usher in.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
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To introduce, as by a herald: to proclaim.
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An officer whose business is to marshal and conduct ceremonies at coronations, royal marriages, installations, creations of peers, declarations of war, proclamations of peace, &c.; also, to record and blazon the arms of the nobility and gentry, and to regulate abuses therein; a proclaimer; a forerunner.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To announce publicly; usher in; proclaim.
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An official bearer of messages, as from a sovereign; any bearer of news; a forerunner.
By James Champlin Fernald
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An officer who reads proclamations and regulates public ceremonies, &c.; one who registers all matters connected with genealogy and armorial bearings; a precursor or harbinger; one who formerly carried messages between princes.
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To proclaim; to introduce, as by a herald.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [French, German] An officer whose business was to proclaim war or peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army;—an officer whose business is to regulate royal cavalcades and other public ceremonies; also, to record and blazon the arms of the nobility and gentry;—a proclaimer; a publisher;—forerunner; a precursor; a harbinger.
