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BANNISTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling
Synonyms:
balusters; balustrade; banister; bannister; handrail
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("bannister" is a kind of...):
barrier (a structure or object that impedes free movement)
Meronyms (parts of "bannister"):
baluster (one of a number of closely spaced supports for a railing)
rail; railing (a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports)
Holonyms ("bannister" is a part of...):
balcony (a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet)
Sense 2
Meaning:
English runner who in 1954 became the first person to run a mile in less than four minutes (born in 1929)
Synonyms:
Bannister; Roger Bannister; Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
four-minute man (someone who has run the mile in less that 4 minutes)
Context examples:
Good gracious, Mr. Holmes, do you mean to tell me that, all the time I was talking to Bannister in this room, we had the man prisoner if we had only known it?
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For an instant I imagined that Bannister had taken the unpardonable liberty of examining my papers.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Holmes looked triumphantly at Bannister.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Come now, Bannister,” said Holmes.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Gilchrist pointed to Bannister.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
From the moment, Mr. Soames, that you said to me that no one, not even Bannister, could have told that the papers were in your room, the case began to take a definite shape in my mind.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Come, come, Bannister!
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Where is Bannister now?
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Why, Bannister, the servant.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The only duplicate which existed, so far as I knew, was that which belonged to my servant, Bannister—a man who has looked after my room for ten years, and whose honesty is absolutely above suspicion.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
