Definition of Banner

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Banner

A kind of flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle.

A large piece of silk or other cloth, with a device or motto, extended on a crosspiece, and borne in a procession, or suspended in some conspicuous place.

Any flag or standard; as, the star-spangled banner.

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Banner Quotations

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
Mark Twain

I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations.
Henry Cabot Lodge

So I will go as far as I can into rock and roll carrying my Christian banner.
Cliff Richard

One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing.
Dave Van Ronk

As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids.
Dennis Farina

We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.
Frederica Montseny

When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.
Carla Bley

We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road.
Satish Kumar

The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.
Franz von Papen

Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
Bill Veeck

Banner Translations

banner in Afrikaans is vlag
banner in Danish is flag
banner in Dutch is vaan, dundoek, vlag
banner in Finnish is lippu
banner in German is Transparent, Banner, Banner
banner in Italian is bandiera
banner in Latin is vexillum
banner in Norwegian is flagg
banner in Portuguese is bandeira
banner in Spanish is bandera, estandarte
banner in Swedish is baner, fana

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