- a long piece of cloth with a message on it that is carried between two poles or hung in a public place to show support for something
- A huge banner over the street said ‘Welcome home’.
- Protesters carried a banner reading ‘Save our Wildlife’.
Extra Examples- Banners demanded the leader's resignation.
- The demonstrators carried banners bearing various slogans.
- They marched forward with banners waving in the wind.
- A banner strung across the road read, ‘Welcome home!’
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + banner- drape
- hang
- hang out
- …
- hang
- flutter
- fly
- …
- ad
- headline
- year
- …
- a title or advertisement across the top or bottom or down the side of a page on the internet
- They put up a website banner advising customers to order early.
- A banner saying ‘To be continued…’ appeared on the screen.
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French baniere, ultimately of Germanic origin and related to band ‘musical group’.
Idioms
See banner in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryunder the banner (of something)
- claiming to support a particular set of ideas
- They fought the election under the banner of ‘No new taxes’.
- as part of a particular group or organization
- Troops are in the country under the banner of the United Nations.
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