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ban·ner     (bān'ər)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
    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.
  1. A piece of cloth bearing a motto or legend, as of a club.
  2. A headline spanning the width of a newspaper page.
  3. Botany See standard.

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

tr.v.   ban·nered, ban·ner·ing, ban·ners Informal
To give a banner headline to (a story or item) in a newspaper.


[Middle English banere, from Old French baniere, from Vulgar Latin *bandāria, from Late Latin bandum, of Germanic origin; see bhā-1 in Indo-European roots.]

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