heralds
Bringers of tidings
Heralds are announcers or messengers, originally officials who made royal proclamations and managed ceremonies.
The word extends to anything that signals what's coming: Robins are heralds of spring.
To herald something is to announce or foreshadow it: The discovery heralded a new era in medicine.
A herald can also proclaim praise: Critics heralded the film as a masterpiece.
Those who convey communications
- criersPublic announcers or weepers
- harbingersSignals of what's ahead
- forerunnersThose preceding others
- trumpetersThose who sound horns
town criers · envoys · couriers · bearers · announcers · broadcasters · emissaries · spokespeople
Prophetic signs or warnings
- signsDisplays conveying information
- portentsOminous indicators of future events
- precursorsThings preceding others
- indicatorsSigns that reveal status
foreshadowing · auguries · presages · warnings · tokens · harbingers · beginnings · dawn
Hereditary symbolic emblem
- blazonHeraldic shield notation
- escutcheonShield bearing heraldry
- armorialOf hereditary emblems
- crestHighest point or tuft
shield · lineage · nobility · ancestry · pedigree · genealogy · insignia · emblems
States openly to many
- declaresStates openly and firmly
- trumpetsValved brass instruments
- broadcastsTransmissions for public reception
- publicizesMakes widely known
ushers · introduces · signals · foretells · presages · predicts · promises · marks
messengers
Those who convey communications
- criersPublic announcers or weepers
- harbingersSignals of what's ahead
- forerunnersThose preceding others
trumpeters · town criers · envoys · couriers · bearers · announcers · broadcasters · emissaries · spokespeople · declarers
omens
Prophetic signs or warnings
- signsDisplays conveying information
- portentsOminous indicators of future events
- precursorsThings preceding others
indicators · foreshadowing · auguries · presages · warnings · tokens · harbingers · beginnings · dawn · advent
coat of arms
Hereditary symbolic emblem
- blazonHeraldic shield notation
- escutcheonShield bearing heraldry
- armorialOf hereditary emblems
crest · shield · lineage · nobility · ancestry · pedigree · genealogy · insignia · emblems · tabard
announces
States openly to many
- declaresStates openly and firmly
- trumpetsValved brass instruments
- broadcastsTransmissions for public reception
publicizes · ushers · introduces · signals · foretells · presages · predicts · promises · marks · signifies
- Hundred Years' WarHundred Years' War, Agincourt, Poitiers, Joan of Arc, Henry V
- angelsarchangels, Michael, Gabriel, seraphim, archangel
- chivalryknighthood, knights, chivalry, medieval knights, honor
- medievalknights, castles, cathedral, kings, queens
- medieval lifechivalry, royal courts, jousting, knighthood, falconry
- character typesprotagonist, hero, antagonist, villain, heroes
heraldshides
Conceals or animal skins
conceals · suppresses · obscures · silences · covers up
heraldsconcealers
Products that mask blemishes
censors · gatekeepers · suppressors · silencers · guards
- heraldic emblemsSymbols denoting lineage
- herald angelHeavenly proclaimer of news
- Herald SquareMidtown Manhattan public plaza
- Hark the HeraldYuletide hymn about angels