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Synonyms
Noun
- banderole
- banderol
- colors
- ensign
- flag
- guidon
- jack
- pendant [chiefly British]
- pendent
- pennant
- pennon
- standard
- streamer
Adjective
- A-OK
- A1
- awesome
- bang-up
- beautiful
- blue-chip
- blue-ribbon
- boffo
- bonny [chiefly British]
- bonnie
- boss [slang]
- brag
- brave
- bully
- bumper
- capital
- choice
- classic
- cool [slang]
- corking
- crackerjack
- cracking
- dandy
- divine
- dope [slang]
- down [slang]
- dynamite
- excellent
- fab
- fabulous
- famous
- fantabulous [slang]
- fantastic
- fine
- first-class
- first-rate
- first-string
- five-star
- four-star
- frontline
- gangbusters
- gangbuster
- gilt-edged
- gilt-edge
- gone [slang]
- grand
- great
- groovy
- heavenly
- high-class
- hot
- hype [slang]
- immense
- jim-dandy
- keen
- lovely
- marvelous
- marvellous
- mean
- neat
- nifty
- noble
- number one
- No. 1
- numero uno
- out-of-sight [slang]
- par excellence
- peachy
- peachy keen
- phat [slang]
- prime
- primo [slang]
- prize
- prizewinning
- quality
- radical [slang]
- righteous [slang]
- sensational
- slick
- splendid
- stellar
- sterling
- superb
- superior
- superlative
- supernal
- swell
- terrific
- tip-top
- top
- top-notch
- top-of-the-line
- top-shelf
- topflight
- topping [chiefly British]
- unsurpassed
- wizard [chiefly British]
- wonderful
Examples of banner in a Sentence
Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Apr. 2024
The Christian flag, a white banner with a red cross, flies beneath an American flag near the beach.
—Sarah Pulliam Bailey, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
The 1936-37 sports season was a banner year for Detroit's professional teams and athletes: The Tigers won the World Series, Joe Louis was the heavyweight boxing champion of the world, the Detroit Red Wings won their first Stanley Cup, and the Detroit Lions won its first National Championship.
—Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 9 Apr. 2024
No Jewish students brought banners or flags, no Jewish students shouted or anything or disrupted the event.
—Brie Stimson, Fox News, 7 Apr. 2024
The next day, just after sunset at a monument known as Salvador del Mundo, situated in a trafficked roundabout in the capital, some seventy feminist protesters stood with banners, chanting slogans about electoral fraud and Fascism.
—Danielle MacKey, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2024
Investors are hoping the upcoming earnings season will help bring back this year’s banner rally.
—Krystal Hur, CNN, 5 Apr. 2024
That conspiracy, Harvey and her team have argued, was organized under and inspired by the banner of Antifa.
—Will Carless, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
However, a red banner means the IRS is trying to reach you.
—Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 June 2022
Thue noted that a licensing subcommittee had already voted in favor of granting The Pearl its license — and the commission decided that walk-in traffic and social media were an acceptable substitute for a sign or banner out front.
—Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Feb. 2022
Lawrence will executive produce under his Doozer Productions banner along with Jeff Ingold.
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 13 Oct. 2021
Back at Harry’s, half a dozen Proud Boys marched with a white Black Lives Matter banner down 11th Street toward the churning crowd.
—Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2020
Yes, there will be ads in the apps, and banner ads as well, but in a briefing, Google declined to state what type of companies will be advertising on the platform or to even cite product categories.
—Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2020
Suspects surface: Why not the nearest neighbor, Trump sign bannering his yard, who once groped Jacy and hopes to buy Lincoln’s property?
—Mameve Medwed, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2019
Before a cheering crowd of Cuban-Americans in Miami last June, Trump bannered his harder line on Cuba.
—Anthony Faiola, Washington Post, 11 May 2018
Class 6A state champion Pope banners the top 10 after defeating No.
—Craig Sager Jr., ajc, 6 June 2017
Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2020
The ’70s weren’t exactly banner days for newsroom diversity.
—Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 18 Apr. 2018
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Word History
Noun
Middle English baner, banere, borrowed from Anglo-French baner, banere, baniere (also continental Old French), probably from ban "summon to arms by a king or lord" + -iere -er entry 2 — more at ban entry 2
Note: The assumption behind this etymology is that the word may have originally denoted the place where the men called to arms assembled, then the flag or pennant that marked that place. The alternative hypothesis that sees it as ultimately deriving from Gothic bandwa "sign" (see band entry 3) seems less likely. For the relation between this word and Old Occitan bandiera, see the etymology and note at banderole.
Verb
derivative of banner entry 1
Adjective
from attributive use of banner entry 1
Noun
13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Verb
1807, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Adjective
1840, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Banner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/banner. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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