BANNER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does banner mean? 

• BANNER (noun)
  The noun BANNER has 3 senses:

1. long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising

2. a newspaper headline that runs across the full page

3. any distinctive flag

  Familiarity information: BANNER used as a noun is uncommon.

• BANNER (adjective)
  The adjective BANNER has 1 sense:

1. unusually good; outstanding

  Familiarity information: BANNER used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BANNER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

banner; streamer

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

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

A newspaper headline that runs across the full page

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

banner; streamer

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

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

Any distinctive flag

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

banner; standard

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)

• BANNER (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unusually good; outstanding

Context example:

a banner year for the company

Similar:

superior (of high or superior quality or performance)

 Context examples 

There flies the prince's banner, and it would be well that we haste ashore and pay our obeisance to him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No banners, cousin, to be 'blown by the night wind of heaven.'

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It seems strange to me that all round me do not burn to enlist under the same banner,—to join in the same enterprise.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Your other banner day for romance will be Friday, March 27, when Venus in Taurus will be in heavenly harmony (trine) with good-fortune Jupiter.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The main-sail hung drooped like a banner.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"Then you may come, and I'll teach you to knit as the Scotchmen do. There's a demand for socks just now," added Jo, waving hers like a big blue worsted banner as they parted at the gate.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

'Tis the royal banner of England, crossed by the prince's label.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They have been buried, I suppose, in the parish church. There you must look for the banners and the achievements.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

From November 18 to January 3, you will have a rare chance to run with the banner and present ideas persuasively, confident that others will approve your plans and want to support you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

No sooner had twilight, that hour of romance, began to lower her blue and starry banner over the lattice, than I rose, opened the piano, and entreated him, for the love of heaven, to give me a song.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)