banner
pronunciation
How to pronounce banner in British English:
UK [ˈbænə(r)]
How to pronounce banner in American English:
US [ˈbænər]
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- Noun:
- long strip of cloth for decoration or advertising
- a newspaper headline that runs across the full page
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- Adjective:
- unusually good; outstanding
Word Origin
- banner
- banner: [13] Banner is of Germanic origin, but it reached English via Latin. Early forms which show its Germanic antecedents are Gothic bandwo ‘sign’ and the related Old Norse benda ‘give a sign’, but at some stage it was acquired by Latin, as bandum ‘standard’. This passed via Vulgar Latin *bandāria into various Romance languages, in some of which the influence of derivatives of Germanic *bann- (source of English ban) led to the elimination of the d. Hence Old French baniere and Anglo-Norman banere, source of English banner.=> ban
- banner (n.)
- c. 1200, from Old French baniere (Modern French bannière) "flag, banner, standard," from Late Latin bandum "standard," borrowed from a West Germanic cognate of Gothic bandwa "a sign" (see band (n.2)). Figurative use from early 14c. Of newspaper headlines, from 1913.
Example
- 1. Beside it half buried in dirt was a discarded banner .
- 2. Michele bachmann , a right-wing congresswoman , can carry the tea-party banner .
- 3. The banner was part of a thai health promotion campaign held yesterday introducing no alcohol day today .
- 4. Some of them , waving the banner of islam , have seized on legitimate local grievances fuelled by poverty , discrimination and the mismanagement of corrupt governments .
- 5. They blocked the entrance , strung up a banner across the gate and set up a picture of the slain doctor .