banner
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
government
heraldry
hobbies
journalism
lifestyle
media
monarchy
nobility
politics
television
Etymology: From Middle English baner, from Old French baniere (Modern bannière), of Germanic origin. More at band.
Inflected forms:
form: banners
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: banners
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bannering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bannered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bannered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A flag or standard used by a military commander, monarch or nation.
pos: noun
examples: “To hold Arrakis,” the Duke said, “one is faced with decisions that may cost one his self-respect.” He pointed out the window to the Atreides green and black banner hanging limply from a staff at the edge of the landing field. "That honorable banner could come to mean many evil things."
gloss: The military unit under such a flag or standard.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A military or administrative subdivision.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: Any large sign, especially when made of soft material or fabric.
pos: noun
examples: The mayor hung a banner across Main Street to commemorate the town's 100th anniversary.
gloss: A large piece of cloth with a slogan, motto, or emblem carried in a demonstration or other procession or suspended in some conspicuous place.
pos: noun
gloss: A cause or purpose; a campaign or movement.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: They usually make their case under the banner of environmentalism.
gloss: The title of a newspaper as printed on its front page; the nameplate; masthead.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of advertisement on a web page or on television, usually taking the form of a graphic or animation above or alongside the content.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
gloss: The principal standard of a knight.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of administrative division in Inner Mongolia and Tuva, made during the Qing dynasty; at that time, Outer Mongolia and part of Xinjiang were also divided into banners.
pos: noun
examples: Hanggin Rear Banner, Bayannur, Inner Mongolia, China
The first Inner Mongolian modern prose work was “Struggling in a Sea of Suffering” (Gashigun-u dotorakhi telchilegchi khemekhü üliger, 1940) by Rinchinkhorlo (1904-63) of Khüriye (Hure) banner, who also translated an American detective story from Japanese into Mongolian.
gloss: Exceptional; very good.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The year just closed has been the banner year for New-Hampshire Home Missions. The amount raised for the cause is $505,38 more than ever was raised before in any one year.
The Zenger decision was a banner achievement for freedom of the press. It pointed the way to the kind of open public discussion required by the diverse society that colonial New York already was and that all America was to become.
gloss: To adorn with a banner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To display as a banner headline.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: At 8:11, bannering the headline “Cheney in Charge?” the Drudge Report runs a story speculating that the president may be incapacitated.
Derived words: ad banner
banner ad
banner blindness
banner carrier
banner cloud
Banner County
banner drop
bannerer
bannerette
banner exchange
bannerfish
bannerless
bannerlike
banner lord
bannerman
banner repeater
banner roll
bannerware
bannerwise
banner year
embannered
imbannered
red banner
snow banner
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