harbinger

IPA: hˈɑrbɪndʒɝ

A person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something.
(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.

Examples of "harbinger" in Sentences

I have to say I've never been called a harbinger before.
A harbinger was the first run of fish in the St. Lawrence River.
In some ways, they said, the midterms were not as bleak a harbinger as some Democrats fear.
Therefore, the JOLT survey is seen as a near - to mid-term harbinger of future hiring - and two straight months of declines sends a clear signal that joblessness won't be declining.
In what lobbyists are calling a harbinger of possible upheaval on Capitol Hill, many who make a living influencing government have gone from mostly shunning Democrats to aggressively recruiting them as lobbyists over the past six months or so.
The harbinger is the situation in Mexico, where the cartels are mounting armed attacks on officials, driving them to take repressive measures that are building resentment among ordinary citizens, many of whom are coming to see police and military as more of a threat than the cartelistas.