Synonyms of the word

herald

• n. A messenger, especially one bringing important news.
• n. A harbinger, giving signs of things to come.
• n. (heraldry) An official whose speciality is heraldry, especially one between the ranks of pursuivant and…
• n. (entomology) A moth of the species Scoliopteryx libatrix.
• v. (transitive) To proclaim or announce an event.
• v. (transitive, usually passive) To greet something with excitement; to hail.

acclaim

• v. (archaic, transitive) To shout; to call out.
• v. (intransitive) To shout approval; to express great approval.
• v. (transitive, rare) To salute or praise with great approval; to compliment; to applaud; to welcome enthusiastically.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To claim.
• v. (transitive) To declare by acclamations.
• v. (Canada, politics) To elect to an office by having no opposition.
• n. (poetic) An acclamation; a shout of applause.
• n. (obsolete) A claim.

announce

• v. (transitive) To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.
• v. (transitive) To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.

annunciate

• v. (transitive) To announce.

applaud

• n. (obsolete) Applause; applauding.
• n. (obsolete) Plaudit.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To express approval (of something) by clapping the hands.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To praise, or express approval for something or someone.

courier

• n. A person who looks after and guides tourists.
• n. A person who delivers messages.
• n. A company that delivers messages.
• n. A company that transports goods.
• n. (Internet) A user who earns access to a topsite by uploading warez.
• v. To deliver by courier.

forerunner

• n. A runner at the front or ahead.
• n. (sports) By extension, a non-competitor who leads out the competitors on to the circuit, or who runs/rides…
• n. A precursor or harbinger, a warning ahead.
• n. A forebear, an ancestor, a predecessor.
• n. (philately) A postage stamp used in the time before a region or area issues stamps of its own.

foretell

• v. To predict; to tell the future before it occurs; to prophesy.

greet

• v. (transitive) To welcome in a friendly manner, either in person or through another means e.g. writing or…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at or reach, or meet (talking of something which brings joy).
• v. (transitive) To accost; to address.
• v. (intransitive) To meet and give salutations.
• v. (transitive) To be perceived by (somebody).
• adj. (obsolete outside Scotland) Great.
• v. (Scotland, Northern England) To weep; to cry.
• n. (obsolete) Mourning, weeping, lamentation.

hail

• n. Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.
• v. (impersonal) Said of the weather when hail is falling.
• v. (transitive) to send or release hail.
• v. (transitive) to greet; give salutation to; salute.
• v. (transitive) To name; to designate; to call.
• v. (transitive) to call out loudly in order to gain the attention of.
• adj. (obsolete) Healthy, whole, safe.
• interj. An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.

harbinger

• n. A person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something.
• n. (obsolete) One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly…
• v. (transitive) To announce; to be a harbinger of.

indicant

• adj. Serving to point out, as a remedy; indicating.
• n. That which indicates or points out.

indication

• n. Act of pointing out or indicating.
• n. That which serves to indicate or point out; mark; token; sign; symptom; evidence.
• n. Discovery made; information.
• n. (obsolete) Explanation; display. Francis Bacon.
• n. (medicine) Any symptom or occurrence in a disease, which serves to direct to suitable remedies.
• n. (finance) An declared approximation of the price at which a traded security is likely to commence trading.

messenger

• n. One who brings messages.
• n. (nautical) A light line with which a heavier line may be hauled e.g. from the deck of a ship to the pier.
• n. The supporting member of an aerial cable (electric power or telephone or data).
• n. (law) A person appointed to perform certain ministerial duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such…
• v. (transitive) To send something by messenger.

precursor

• n. That which precurses, a forerunner, a predecessor, an indicator of approaching events.
• n. (chemistry) One of the compounds that participates in the chemical reaction that produces another compound.

recognise

• v. (transitive) To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous…
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge the existence or legality of something; treat as worthy of consideration or…
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge or consider as something.
• v. (transitive) To realise or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in; realise or admit that.
• v. (transitive) To give an award.

recognize

• v. (transitive) To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous…
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge the existence or legality of something; treat as valid or worthy of consideration.
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge or consider as something.
• v. (transitive) To realize or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in; realize or admit that.
• v. (transitive) To give an award.
• v. To show appreciation of.
• v. (obsolete) To review; to examine again.
• v. (obsolete) To reconnoiter.
• v. (immunology) To have the property to bind to specific antigens.
• v. To cognize again.

tell

• v. (transitive) To count, reckon, or enumerate.
• v. (transitive) To narrate.
• v. (transitive) To convey by speech; to say.
• v. (transitive) To instruct or inform.
• v. (transitive) To order; to direct, to say to someone.
• v. (intransitive) To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
• v. (transitive) To reveal.
• v. (intransitive) To be revealed.
• v. (intransitive) To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
• v. (transitive) To use beads or similar objects as an aid to prayer.
• v. (intransitive, childish) To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
• n. A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts…
• n. (archaic) That which is told; a tale or account.
• n. (Internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.
• n. (archaeology) A mound, originally in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.

trumpeter

• n. Someone who plays a trumpet.
• n. Any of three species of bird in the family Psophiidae from South America named for the trumpeting threat…
• n. Any of a number of breeds of fancy pigeon (variety of domestic pigeon (Columba livia), originally bred…
• n. (figuratively) One who proclaims, publishes, or denounces.
• n. An American swan (Cygnus buccinator) with a very loud honk.
• n. A perciform fish of the family Latridae, native to Australia, New Zealand and Chile.