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Banner means A flag or standard used by a military commander, monarch or nation..
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/ˈbænə/ · noun
A flag or standard used by a military commander, monarch or nation..
“To hold Arrakis,” the Duke said, “one is faced with decisions that may cost one his self-respect.” He pointed out the window to the Atreides green and black banner hanging limply from a staff at the edge of the landing field. "That honorable banner could come to mean many evil things."
The mayor hung a banner across Main Street to commemorate the town's 100th anniversary.
They usually make their case under the banner of environmentalism.
Hanggin Rear Banner, Bayannur, Inner Mongolia, China
The first Inner Mongolian modern prose work was “Struggling in a Sea of Suffering” (Gashigun-u dotorakhi telchilegchi khemekhü üliger, 1940) by Rinchinkhorlo (1904-63) of Khüriye (Hure) banner, who also translated an American detective story from Japanese into Mongolian.
The year just closed has been the banner year for New-Hampshire Home Missions. The amount raised for the cause is $505,38 more than ever was raised before in any one year.
The Zenger decision was a banner achievement for freedom of the press. It pointed the way to the kind of open public discussion required by the diverse society that colonial New York already was and that all America was to become.
At 8:11, bannering the headline “Cheney in Charge?” the Drudge Report runs a story speculating that the president may be incapacitated.
Use banner when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Banner means A flag or standard used by a military commander, monarch or nation..
Common synonyms include large, big, streamer, superior.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
“To hold Arrakis,” the Duke said, “one is faced with decisions that may cost one his self-respect.” He pointed out the window to the Atreides green and black banner hanging limply from a staff at the edge of the landing field. "That honorable banner could come to mean many evil things."
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