heralding
Proclaiming what's coming
Heralding is announcing or signaling the arrival of something.
A herald was historically a messenger who proclaimed important news, so heralding suggests formal or significant announcement: Robins heralding spring, a discovery heralding a new era in medicine.
The word often implies that what follows will be momentous or transformative.
Announcing something formally
- declaringFormally stating something
- announcingPublicly stating information
- broadcastingMass signal transmission
- trumpetingLoud, brassy proclamation
pronouncing · publicizing · notifying · informing · disclosing · revealing · communicating · publishing
Ceremonial brass announcement
- trumpetValved brass wind instrument
- hornPointed animal headgear
- bugleValveless military horn
- clarionShrill medieval war trumpet
flourish · drumroll · bell · tocsin · gong · salute · processional · announcement
Indicating future events
- presagingIndicating something to come
- foretellingAnnouncing future events
- prefiguringSuggesting something future
- auguringPredicting through signs
foreboding · forewarning · signaling · betokening · predicting · anticipating · prophesying · boding
Making first acquaintance
- initiatingCausing to start
- inauguratingFormally beginning something new
- launchingSetting something in motion
- commencingBeginning to happen
opening · beginning · preceding · pioneering · leading · starting · welcoming · ringing in
proclaiming
Announcing something formally
- declaringFormally stating something
- announcingPublicly stating information
- broadcastingMass signal transmission
trumpeting · pronouncing · publicizing · notifying · informing · disclosing · revealing · communicating · publishing · promulgating
fanfare
Ceremonial brass announcement
clarion · flourish · drumroll · bell · tocsin · gong · salute · processional · announcement · blast
portending
Indicating future events
- presagingIndicating something to come
- foretellingAnnouncing future events
- prefiguringSuggesting something future
auguring · foreboding · forewarning · signaling · betokening · predicting · anticipating · prophesying · boding · intimating
introducing
Making first acquaintance
- initiatingCausing to start
- inauguratingFormally beginning something new
- launchingSetting something in motion
commencing · opening · beginning · preceding · pioneering · leading · starting · welcoming · ringing in · bringing
- assertionsassertions, asserting, assert, statements, stating
- announcementsannouncement, declaration, proclamation, pronouncement, statement
- new beginningsnew beginning, New Year, new beginnings, clean slate, new chapter
heraldingconcealing
Keeping something secret
hiding · suppressing · obscuring · masking · covering up
heraldingconcluding
Bringing to an end
ending · closing · terminating · tolling · mourning
heraldingsilencing
Stopping noise or dissent
downplaying · ignoring · underplaying · minimizing · stifling
- heraldic emblemsSymbols denoting lineage