0 a person or thing that shows that something is going to happen soon, especially something bad:
a harbinger of doom
Their arrival increased the pressure on game and was the harbinger of permanent settlement with permanent structures in the landscape.
Personal insight and meaning are the harbingers of shared and public meaning.
Performance-based music education becomes the harbinger of intellectual passivity and conservatism.
While conjunctural, it was a harbinger of later events.
There are signs, harbingers perhaps, of a coming trend of greater concern for the comparative among historians of science and technology.
What then of textile production, the seeming harbinger of industrial development?
This new, much higher limit, turned out to be a harbinger of the gradual removal of capital stock limitations.
However, while 'enlightenment ' may have been the harbinger of change, to characterize this change as leading to ' secularization ' would be too simplistic.
