an official employed to oversee state ceremonial, precedence, and the use of armorial bearings, and (historically) to make proclamations, carry ceremonial messages, and oversee tournaments 掌礼官;(古)传令官,(负责比武大会的)纹章官 ■(in the UK) an official of the College of Arms or the Lyon Court ranking below a pursuivant (英国)宗谱纹章院的官员;(里昂法院)纹章院属官职位以下的官员
a person or thing viewed as a sign that something is about to happen 先驱者,前奏 they considered the first primroses as the herald of spring. 他们把第一批樱草花视为春天的预兆。
a brown moth with dull orange markings, often hibernating in houses and old buildings 棘翅夜蛾
Scoliopteryx libatrix, family Noctuidae 拉丁名Scoliopteryx libatrix,夜蛾科
verb
[with obj.]be a sign that (something) is about to happen 预示 the speech heralded a change in policy. 这个演讲预示着政策的变化。 ■(一般作 be heralded)acclaim 称赞 the band have been heralded as the great hope for the nineties. 这乐队被誉为90年代的大希望。
语源
Middle English: from Old French herault (noun), herauder (verb), of Germanic origin