<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>(formerly) A royal or official messenger, especially one representing a monarch in an ambassadorial capacity during wartime.</li><li>A person or thing that precedes or comes before; forerunner; harbinger: the returning swallows, those heralds of spring.</li><li>A person or thing that proclaims or announces: A good newspaper should be a herald of truth.</li><li>(in the Middle Ages) An officer who arranged tournaments and other functions, announced challenges, marshaled combatants, etc.</li><li>An official intermediate in rank between a king-of-arms and a pursuivant, in the Heralds' College in England or the Heralds' Office in Scotland.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>To give news or tidings of; announce; proclaim: a publicity campaign to herald a new film.</li><li>To indicate or signal the coming of; usher in.</li></ul><p><strong>Synonyms</strong></p><ul><li>Tout, ballyhoo, publicize.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>