Definition of banner

< Banneker, Benjamin

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ban·ner    (bnr) KEY 

NOUN:

1. 1. A piece of cloth attached to a staff and used as a standard by a monarch, military commander, or knight.
   2. The flag of a nation, state, or army.
2. A piece of cloth bearing a motto or legend, as of a club.
3. A headline spanning the width of a newspaper page.
4. Botany See standard.

ADJECTIVE:

Unusually good; outstanding: a banner year for the company.

TRANSITIVE VERB:
Informal ban·nered, ban·ner·ing, ban·ners

To give a banner headline to (a story or item) in a newspaper.

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ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English banere, from Old French baniere, from Vulgar Latin *bandria, from Late Latin bandum, of Germanic origin; see bh-¹ in Indo-European roots