banner
/ˈbænɚ/ noun B2- A flag or standard used by a military commander, monarch or nation.
- The military unit under such a flag or standard.
- A military or administrative subdivision.
- Any large sign, especially when made of soft material or fabric. · The mayor hung a banner across Main Street to commemorate the town's 100th anniversary.
- A large piece of cloth with a slogan, motto, or emblem carried in a demonstration or other procession or suspended in some conspicuous place.
- A cause or purpose; a campaign or movement. · They usually make their case under the banner of environmentalism.
- The title of a newspaper as printed on its front page; the nameplate; masthead.
- 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.
Plural banners
From the library
While the napkin like a banner
He was at the gate when I came out, a-leanin’ up agin the railings, and a-singin’ at the pitch o’ his lungs about Columbine’s New-fangled Banner, or some such stuff.
Sometimes the road went through woods where maples were beginning to hang out scarlet banners; sometimes it crossed rivers on bridges that made Anne’s flesh cringe with the old, half-delightful fear; sometimes it wound along a harbor shore and passed by a little cluster of weather-gray fishing huts; again it mounted to hills whence a far sweep of curving upland or misty-blue sky could be seen; but wherever it went there was much of interest to discuss.
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