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BANNER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising

Synonyms:

banner; streamer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("banner" is a kind of...):

flag (emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any distinctive flag

Synonyms:

banner; standard

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("banner" is a kind of...):

flag (emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "banner"):

oriflamme (a red or orange-red flag used as a standard by early French kings)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A newspaper headline that runs across the full page

Synonyms:

banner; streamer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("banner" is a kind of...):

headline; newspaper headline (the heading or caption of a newspaper article)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unusually good; outstanding

Example:

a banner year for the company

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

superior (of high or superior quality or performance)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I pray you, Edricson, that you will command my guidon-bearer to put forward my banner.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here are no aisles, no arches, no inscriptions, no banners.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Simon, you bide with your lord's banner; but ten men must go forward.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But mark these houses, Alleyne, how they thrust forth upon the top. And see to the coats-of-arms at every window, and banner or pensil on the roof.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her banner is planted on ice. Her banner is scorched in the sun.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Under the royal banners rode many a bold Gascon baron and many a hot-blooded islander.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For a moment he smiled, as his eye lit upon the banner of the five roses waving from the hamlet; but his course lay for Pampeluna, and he rode on after the archers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If there be forest men or Hampshire men amongst ye, I call upon them to say whether they will follow the banner of Loring.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

First came Black Simon with his banner, bestriding a lean and powerful dapple-gray charger, as hard and wiry and warwise as himself.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But mark you now yonder lofty turret in the centre, which stands back from the river and hath a broad banner upon the summit.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)