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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
banner
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a banner headline (=a very large headline across the top of the page)
▪ Le Monde ran its famous banner headline ' We are all Americans now'.
banner ad
banner headline
▪ The front-page banner headline read ‘Disgraced police chief to stand trial’.
banner year
Star-Spangled Banner, the
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
▪ Once more the red and black banners indicating an epidemic floated over the capital.
large
▪ There were many more than two hundred behind that large banner, so was it the wisest move?
▪ He did as he was told and saw a large banner strung above the door.
▪ Many prisoners of war were now arriving in Liverpool and the girls in Sarah's office made a large Welcome Home banner.
■ NOUN
ad
▪ Part of the screen was taken up by a banner ad for TotalNews sponsor NewsPage, a personalized Internet news service.
▪ That banner ad obscured an ad on the Time site for PointCast, which competes with NewsPage.
headline
▪ It was given a banner headline on page one and was continued on two inner pages.
▪ In banner headlines, the Cataract Journal announced that he had saved the carnival.
▪ Success is celebrated in banner headlines.
▪ The story also earned a front-page banner headline in the national newspaper, the Globe and Mail.
year
▪ Nineteen seventy-seven was a banner year for me, because I was doing all four at once.
▪ I had a banner year, and it took another banner year to beat me.
▪ True, it had not been a banner year for Republican candidates, thanks to the resignation of President Nixon that summer.
▪ Further, she predicted that the division will have another banner year and set a new record in the current fiscal year.
▪ But even elsewhere, 1995 was a banner year for conspiracy theories.
▪ Realtors are pinning their hopes for another banner year on low mortgage rates.
■ VERB
carry
▪ But the motive behind her achievement was not self-interest alone, nor the desire to carry aloft the banner of feminism.
▪ Eugene McCarthy carried the anti-war banner successfully through one primary after another.
▪ Marchers carried banners to Northumberland Street for a symbolic crossing of the wall that divides them.
▪ Nader never admits to carrying anyone else's banner.
▪ If they're going to carry the banner, they're very worthy.
hold
▪ Perforations through his clenched hands suggest that he held weapons or banners.
▪ We all slid out of the car, junior holding the banner, all of us trying to remain cool.
▪ After he moved to Jersey, one year he held the banner of some New Jersey gay group.
hung
▪ Protesters hung banners from lamp-posts and forced police to block through traffic.
raise
▪ He realised that some were small, barely six inches high, while others had sword-arms raised or banners flying.
▪ In 1418, proclaiming himself the Prince of Pacification, Le Loi raised the banner of revolt.
read
▪ Though his banner read burlesque, he occasionally dabbled in slightly more legitimate vaudeville fare.
unfurl
▪ A single protester attempted to unfurl a banner in the square on June 3, but was quickly arrested by police.
wave
▪ That fundamental conflict between consumption and conservation has both sides of the molecular forestry debate waving environmental banners.
▪ Tonight, he could have shouted through the streets, blown a trumpet, waved a banner.
▪ Some of its leaders fear a revival of left-wing parties waving the banner of social justice.
▪ They spent the sixties knocking their country over dinner and waving banners at a liberal president.
▪ They waved banners and signed petitions.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The protesters were carrying anti-war banners.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A single protester attempted to unfurl a banner in the square on June 3, but was quickly arrested by police.
▪ Gephardt is the most logical champion to lift that banner.
▪ He is champion of the sceptics, and he sallies forth with his banners flying.
▪ He was not a brave man, and often said so, brandishing his supposed nervousness like a banner.
▪ On their shelters were slogans flying on red and yellow banners.
▪ Would we please hang up our sponsor banners so that we were not mistaken for refugees?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Banner

Banner \Ban"ner\ (b[a^]n"n[~e]r), n. [OE. banere, OF. baniere, F. banni[`e]re, bandi[`e]re, fr. LL. baneria, banderia, fr. bandum banner, fr. OHG. bant band, strip of cloth; cf. bindan to bind, Goth. bandwa, bandwo, a sign. See Band, n.]

  1. A kind of flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle.

    Hang out our banners on the outward walls.
    --Shak.

  2. A large piece of silk or other cloth, with a device or motto, extended on a crosspiece, and borne in a procession, or suspended in some conspicuous place.

  3. Any flag or standard; as, the star-spangled banner.

    Banner fish (Zo["o]l.), a large fish of the genus Histiophorus, of the Swordfish family, having a broad bannerlike dorsal fin; the sailfish. One species ( Histiophorus Americanus) inhabits the North Atlantic.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
banner

c.1200, from Old French baniere (Modern French bannière) "flag, banner, standard," from Late Latin bandum "standard," borrowed from a West Germanic cognate of Gothic bandwa "a sign" (see band (n.2)). Figurative use from early 14c. Of newspaper headlines, from 1913.

Wiktionary
banner

a. exceptional; very good. n. 1 A flag or standard used by a military commander, monarch or nation. 2 Any large sign, especially if constructed of soft material or fabric. 3 A large piece of silk or other cloth, with a device or motto, extended on a crosspiece, and borne in a procession, or suspended in some conspicuous place. 4 By extension, a cause or purpose; a campaign or movement. 5 (context journalism English) The title of a newspaper as printed on its front page; the nameplate; masthead. 6 (context Internet television English) A type of advertisement in a web page or on television, usually taking the form of a graphic or animation above or alongside the content. Contrast popup, interstitial. 7 (context heraldry English) The principal standard of a knight. 8 A person etc. who bans something. 9 An administrative subdivision in (l/en: Inner Mongolia).

WordNet
banner

adj. unusually good; outstanding; "a banner year for the company"

banner
  1. n. long strip of cloth for decoration or advertising [syn: streamer]

  2. a newspaper headline that runs across the full page [syn: streamer]

Gazetteer
Banner, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 149
Housing Units (2000): 59
Land area (2000): 0.335883 sq. miles (0.869933 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.335883 sq. miles (0.869933 sq. km)
FIPS code: 03571
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 40.514730 N, 89.910537 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Banner, IL
Banner
Banner -- U.S. County in Nebraska
Population (2000): 819
Housing Units (2000): 375
Land area (2000): 746.217098 sq. miles (1932.693329 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.153980 sq. miles (0.398806 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 746.371078 sq. miles (1933.092135 sq. km)
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 41.533313 N, 103.704593 W
Headwords:
Banner
Banner, NE
Banner County
Banner County, NE
Wikipedia
Banner

A banner is a flag or other piece of cloth bearing a symbol, logo, slogan or other message. A flag whose design is the same as the shield in a coat of arms (but usually in a square or rectangular shape) is called a banner of arms.

Banner-making is an ancient craft. Church banners commonly portray the saint to whom the church is dedicated.

The word derives from French word "bannière" and late Latin bandum, a cloth out of which a flag is made (, , , ). The German language developed the word to mean an official edict or proclamation and since such written orders often prohibited some form of human activity, bandum assumed the meaning of a ban, control, interdict or excommunication. Banns has the same origin meaning an official proclamation, and abandon means to change loyalty or disobey orders, semantically "to leave the cloth or flag".

Banner (disambiguation)

A banner is a symbol-bearing flag. See also Banner (Mongols). This may also refer to:

Banner (country subdivision)

Banner, a type of administrative division, may refer to:

  • Banner (Inner Mongolia), an administrative division of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China.
    • Autonomous banner, an area associated with one or more ethnic minorities designated as autonomous within the People's Republic of China.
  • Eight Banners, ancient administrative divisions of China into which all Manchu families were placed.
  • Bandon (Byzantine Empire), "banner", the lowest Byzantine administrative-cum-military unit
  • Sanjak, literally "a banner, flag", the original first level subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire.
  • Liwa, an Arabic term meaning "banner" as a type of administrative division.
Banner (Australian rules football)

The banner, in the context of Australian football, is a large crêpe paper and sticky-tape constructed banner made weekly by each team's cheer squad. It is hoisted before the start of every Australian Rules Football game. When hoisted before each game, it reveals an encouraging or celebratory message to the team; then, as the players take to the field, they run through the banner, breaking it. Traditionally, the captain, or a milestone achieving player leads the team when breaking the banner (although there are some exceptions). The banners have become standard at all AFL games.

Banner (Unix)

The Unix banner program outputs a large ASCII art version of the text that is supplied to it as its program arguments. One use of the command is to create highly visible separator pages for print jobs.

Banner (newspaper)

Banner is the name of the following newspapers:

  • Bay State Banner, Boston, Massachusetts, serving the African-American community since 1965
  • Bennington Banner, Bennington, Vermont, established in 1841
  • Duncan Banner, Duncan, Oklahoma
  • Hillsboro Banner, Hillsboro, North Dakota, a weekly newspaper first published in 1879
  • Logan Banner, Logan, West Virginia
  • The Peel Banner, Brampton, Ontario, Canada, a 19th-century newspaper
Banner (album)

Banner is a live album by Desperation Band, released by Integrity Music on September 30, 2014. The album was produced by Jon Egan and Michael Rossback.

Banner (surname)

Banner is the surname of:

People:

  • Arthur Banner (1918-1980), English footballer and manager
  • Bob Banner (1921-2011), American producer, writer and director
  • Catherine Banner (born 1989), British author
  • Fiona Banner (born 1966), British artist
  • Harmood Banner (1783–1865), British accountant whose company was the origin of the accountancy firm Coopers & Lybrand
  • Jérôme Le Banner (born 1972), French kickboxer
  • Joe Banner (born 1953), former National Football League executive
  • John Banner (1910-1973), Austrian actor who played Sgt. Schultz on the TV show Hogan's Heroes
  • Lois Banner (born 1939), American feminist academic
  • Michael Banner, Dean and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
  • Mitchell Banner (born 1990), former Australian Rules Football player
  • Penny Banner, American wrestler
  • Peter Banner, English-born architect and builder in the early 19th century
  • Peter Banner (rugby league) (born 1948), English rugby league player

Fictional characters:

  • Dr. Bruce Banner/Dr. David Bruce Banner, the alter ego of the The Incredible Hulk
  • Betty Ross Banner, a Marvel Comics character whose alter ego is the Red She-Hulk
  • Brian Banner, a Marvel Comics villain; abusive father of Bruce Banner
  • Lyman Banner, from the anime series Yu-Gi-Oh! GX

Usage examples of "banner".

He was therefore accommodated with a second-hand suit and another shirt, and at once listed under the banners of Count Fathom, who spent the whole afternoon in giving him proper instructions for the regulation of his conduct.

Achmed rode to the entranceway and seized the banner, affixing it to hi own riding staff.

Nuevo Aliyah, Nuevo Aliyah banners would offend the Islamic -Renaissance, Naturist banners would offend the Neo-Victorians.

It was Monsignor Marbot who went in procession to the battlefield of the Marne with crucifix and banner and white-robed acolytes, and in an allocution of singular beauty consecrated those stricken fields with the last rites of the Church.

This phrase, which became the banner of Anarchist violence, was first used by a French Socialist, Paul Brousse, in 1878, a year which saw four attempts on crowned heads: two on Wilhelm I of Germany and one each on the Kings of Spain and Italy.

Above the watchers shall he proclaim himself, bannered cross the sky in fire .

Fortress of the Light, towered and bannered and impregnable, bastion of truth and right, did not lift his spirits.

The Banneret was an officer entrusted with the keeping of the State Banner, and such others as were taken in battle.

He moreover enjoyed the dignity of castellain and chief bannerer or banneret of London.

Meanwhile we began to grow strong, for many joined us therein who had fled from their tyrants of the good towns and the manors of the baronage, and at last in the third year naught would please my lord but we must enter into the Kingdom of the Tower, and raise his banner in the wealthy land, and the fair cities.

Brian Boru was wrapped in a crimson mantle and draped with his banner of three lions, modeled after the stylized Celtic lions in the Book of Kells.

It was almost unbearable to turn away from the mass of students streaming out into the sunshine, all of them wearing rosettes and hats and brandishing banners and scarves, to descend the stone steps into the dungeons and walk until the distant sounds of the crowd were quite obliterated, knowing that he would not be able to hear a word of commentary or a cheer or groan.

He also said that the man who told them about the matter had erred when he said that it had been two councilmen who brayed, because according to the verses on the banner, they had been mayors.

God who made me, you can give a two-bray advantage to the greatest and most expert brayer in the world, because your sound is loud, your voice sustained, with the correct time and rhythm, your inflections numerous and rapid: in short, I admit defeat, and surrender the palm, and hand you the banner for this rare ability.

Don Quixote assumed that these people were from the braying village, and he told Sancho this as he read to him what was written on the banner.