banner
/ˈbanə
/- By marching together, carrying banners and chanting slogans, thousands of students peacefully displayed their anger and emotion against the war that had started.
- Of course, there will be people who will say that these dedicated campaigners were foolish to wave banners carrying the slogans ‘Farmers for Blair!’
- Each person was forced to sign an agreement not to carry placards or banners, shout slogans, or wear clothes with written words of complaint.
Synonyms
- Appropriately, the cultural-historical monument has been built close to where King Sakha raised his banner of revolt and ultimately welded his people into the force that it is today.
- The bright red and gold banners heralded the presence of the house of Pyropoint.
- The rebel army had lowered its banners and was taking cover in the forests that were interspersed between the farmland found outside of the gleaming city.
Synonyms
- How sad it was to see so much fervour amongst my own countrymen in taking up the banner of support for the US in their actions against Iraq.
- We didn't have soft money, but we had ideas and we had vision and we had principles and we had things that attracted Americans to our banner.
- In asserting this, the Reformation unfurls the banner of Free Spirit and proclaims as its essential principle: Man is in his very nature destined to be free.
- Hence, hate-related advertisement banners may appear on Web sites unrelated to hate messages.
- The banner ad for the ASCA that is running on this web site does displace banners from paying advertisers.
- Users hate pop-up ads almost as much as they do spam, but they get noticed better than banners so advertisers continue to demand them from Web sites.
- Well, if this is the kind of tone he wants to set for his party, 2006 will be another banner year for Republicans.
- His Noodles & Co. restaurant chain has had another banner year, and he's reaped some rewards from the down economy.
- Different types of oranges have good years and bad years, L' Hoste says, adding that one banner crop is typically balanced by a sluggish one.
Phrases
under the banner of
Derivatives
bannered
/ adjective ...- ‘The New York Post’ this morning bannered Congressman Dick Gephardt as Kerry's vice presidential running mate.
- ‘A Different Kind of Republican’ was the way the Washington Post Web site bannered the story after Hastert picked Dreier.
- Note that the launch tower is bannered with ads and logos.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French baniere, ultimately of Germanic origin and related to band2.
band from Old English:
A band in the sense ‘a strip of something’ comes from the same Germanic root as bind (Old English) and bond (Middle English). Bend is a variant found in bend sinister (early 17th century), a broad diagonal stripe from top right to bottom left of a shield, a supposed sign of bastardy. Bandage (late 16th century) and bandbox (mid 17th century), now a box for carrying hats, but originally for carrying neckbands, come from this word. In early use a band in the sense ‘a group’, usually consisted of armed men, robbers, or assassins. The first groups of musicians called a band (in the 17th century) were attached to regiments of the army. Banner (Middle English) is related. A bandwagon (mid 19th century) was a wagon used for carrying the band in a parade or procession. The word now occurs more often in phrases such as to jump on the bandwagon. This use developed in America in the late 19th century.