1a. A piece of cloth attached to a staff and used as a standard by a monarch, military commander, or knight. b. 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 (sense 9).
ADJECTIVE:
Unusually good; outstanding: a banner year for the company.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
Inflected forms: ban·nered, ban·ner·ing, ban·ners Informal To give a banner headline to (a story or item) in a newspaper.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English banere, from Old French baniere, from Vulgar Latin *bandria, from Late Latin bandum, of Germanic origin. See bh-1 in Appendix I.
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