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ensign
A standard or banner, as of a military unit.
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  1. A standard or banner, as of a military unit.
  2. A flag or banner; specif., a national flag, as one displayed on a ship
  3. A national flag displayed on ships and aircraft, often with the special insignia of a branch or unit of the armed forces.
champion
Superior to all others:
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  1. Superior to all others:
  2. Holding first place or prize:
excellent
(Obs.) Excelling; surpassing
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  1. (Obs.) Excelling; surpassing
  2. (Archaic) Being so to an extreme degree.
  3. Of the highest or finest quality; exceptionally good for its kind:
prime
Being the most desired or suitable example of something:
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  1. Being the most desired or suitable example of something:
  2. Highest in quality; excellent:
  3. First or highest in rank or importance; main:
splendid
Brilliant with light or color; radiant:
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  1. Brilliant with light or color; radiant:
  2. Imposing by reason of showiness or grandeur; magnificent:
  3. Very good; excellent; fine
superb
Majestic or magnificent:
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  1. Majestic or magnificent:
  2. Of unusually high quality; excellent:
  3. Extremely fine; excellent
superior
Showing a feeling of being better than others; haughty
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  1. Showing a feeling of being better than others; haughty
  2. Presuming to be or suggesting that one is morally or socially better than others; disdainful or supercilious.
  3. Of great value or excellence; extraordinary.
top
Relating to, made up of, or broadcasting the Top 40:
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  1. Relating to, made up of, or broadcasting the Top 40:
  2. Of the highest degree, quality, rank, or amount:
  3. Of or having to do with the Top 40 or the kind of popular music they represent
pennant
(Nautical) A long, tapering, usually triangular flag, used on ships for signaling or identification.
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  1. (Nautical) A long, tapering, usually triangular flag, used on ships for signaling or identification.
  2. (Sports) A flag that symbolizes the championship of a league, especially a professional baseball league.
  3. A flag or an emblem similar in shape to a ship's pennant.
standard
Something, such as a practice or a product, that is widely recognized or employed, especially because of its excellence.
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  1. Something, such as a practice or a product, that is widely recognized or employed, especially because of its excellence.
  2. A piece of popular music that continues to be included in the repertoire of many bands, singers, etc. through the years
  3. (--- Mil.) The colors of a cavalry unit
banderole
A representation of a ribbon or scroll bearing an inscription.
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  1. A representation of a ribbon or scroll bearing an inscription.
  2. A little banner, flag, or streamer.
  3. A narrow flag or pennant, esp. one attached to a lance or carried at the masthead of a ship
banneret
(Military, historical) A proposed but unadopted senior commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force equivalent to group captain.
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  1. (Military, historical) A proposed but unadopted senior commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force equivalent to group captain.
  2. A noble, knighted feudal lord who has the right to lead his vassals to battle under his own banner
  3. A feudal knight ranking between a knight bachelor and a baron, who was entitled to lead men into battle under his own standard.
color
Vividness or variety in expression:
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  1. Vividness or variety in expression:
  2. Any color other than black, white, or gray; chromatic color: color is distinguished by the qualities of hue (as red, brown, yellow, etc.), lightness (for pigmented surfaces) or brightness (for light itself), and saturation (the degree of intensity of a hue)
  3. Color charge.
flag
A strip of cloth worn by players in : a person carrying the ball is considered down when an opponent snatches his or her flag
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  1. A strip of cloth worn by players in : a person carrying the ball is considered down when an opponent snatches his or her flag
  2. Any of various wild irises with flat fans of sword-shaped leaves and white, blue, or yellow flowers
  3. A piece of cloth, usually rectangular, of distinctive color and design, used as a symbol, standard, signal, or emblem.
jack
Any of various machines used to lift, hoist, or move something heavy a short distance
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  1. Any of various machines used to lift, hoist, or move something heavy a short distance
  2. (Hunting) A torch or light used to attract fish or game at night
  3. (Games) A game played with a set of small six-pointed metal pieces and a small ball, the object being to pick up the pieces in various combinations.
oriflamme
The red or orange-red flag of the Abbey of Saint Denis in France, used as a standard by the early kings of France.
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  1. The red or orange-red flag of the Abbey of Saint Denis in France, used as a standard by the early kings of France.
  2. The ancient royal standard of France, a red silk banner with flame-shaped streamers
  3. An inspiring standard or symbol.
pennant
(Sports) A flag that symbolizes the championship of a league, especially a professional baseball league.
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  1. (Sports) A flag that symbolizes the championship of a league, especially a professional baseball league.
  2. (Nautical) A long, tapering, usually triangular flag, used on ships for signaling or identification.
  3. A flag or an emblem similar in shape to a ship's pennant.
pennon
A thin triangular flag or streamer, especially as hung from the end of a lance or spear.
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  1. A thin triangular flag or streamer, especially as hung from the end of a lance or spear.
  2. A pennant, banner, or flag.
  3. A long, narrow, triangular or swallow-tailed flag borne on a lance as an ensign, as formerly by knights and lancers
standard
Something, such as a practice or a product, that is widely recognized or employed, especially because of its excellence.
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  1. Something, such as a practice or a product, that is widely recognized or employed, especially because of its excellence.
  2. The proportion of pure gold or silver and base metal prescribed for use in coinage
  3. (--- Mil.) The colors of a cavalry unit
streamer
A long narrow strip of material used for ornament or decoration.
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  1. A long narrow strip of material used for ornament or decoration.
  2. Any long, narrow strip of cloth, colored paper, ribbon, etc., hanging loose at one end
  3. A column of light shooting across the sky in the aurora borealis.
ace
A trademark for an elastic bandage.
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  1. A trademark for an elastic bandage.
  2. Top-notch; first-rate.
  3. (Informal) First-rate; expert
blue-ribbon
(Informal) Preeminent or outstanding of its kind
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  1. (Informal) Preeminent or outstanding of its kind
  2. Designating or of a panel made up of persons specially selected as for their expertise
brag
(Archaic) Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
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  1. (Archaic) Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
  2. Exceptionally fine.
  3. (Now Rare) First-rate; excellent
capital
First and foremost; principal:
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  1. First and foremost; principal:
  2. Most important or most serious; principal; chief
  3. Of or relating to financial assets, especially being or related to those financial assets that add to the net worth of a business:
fine
Excellent in character or ability:
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  1. Excellent in character or ability:
  2. Superior in quality; better than average; excellent; very good
  3. Able to make or detect effects of great subtlety or precision; sensitive:
first-class
(Programming) Of, or relating to a treatment like that for a first-class citizen.
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  1. (Programming) Of, or relating to a treatment like that for a first-class citizen.
  2. Constituting or belonging to the first, highest, or best group in a system of classification:
  3. Of the highest class, rank, excellence, etc.; of the best quality
first-rate
Foremost in quality, rank, or importance.
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  1. Foremost in quality, rank, or importance.
  2. Of the highest class, rank, or quality; very good; excellent
quality
Of high quality
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  1. Of high quality
  2. Having a high degree of excellence:
terrific
(Informal) Unusually fine, admirable, enjoyable, etc.
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  1. (Informal) Unusually fine, admirable, enjoyable, etc.
  2. Very good or fine; splendid:
  3. Unusually great in degree, intensity, severity, etc.
tiptop
(Informal) At the highest point of excellence, health, etc.
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  1. (Informal) At the highest point of excellence, health, etc.
  2. At the highest point, or top
  3. Excellent; first-rate:
a-one
(Informal) First-class; first-rate; superior
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  1. (Informal) First-class; first-rate; superior
  2. First-class; excellent.
bully
Dashing, hearty, or jolly
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  1. Dashing, hearty, or jolly
  2. Excellent; splendid:
  3. (Informal) Fine; very good
dandy
(Rare) Of or for a dandy; foppish
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  1. (Rare) Of or for a dandy; foppish
  2. Suggestive of or attired like a dandy; foppish.
  3. Fine; good.
great
(Informal) Excellent; splendid; fine
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  1. (Informal) Excellent; splendid; fine
  2. Being one generation removed from the relative specified. Often used in combination:
  3. Superior in quality or character; noble:
swell
Fashionably elegant; stylish.
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  1. Fashionably elegant; stylish.
  2. Excellent; wonderful:
  3. (Slang) First-rate; excellent
topflight
First-rate; excellent.
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  1. First-rate; excellent.
boss
First-rate; topnotch.
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  1. First-rate; topnotch.
  2. (Informal) Chief
  3. (Slang) Excellent; fine
Find another word for banner. In this page you can discover 44 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for banner, like: ensign, champion, excellent, prime, splendid, superb, superior, top, colors, pennant and standard.

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  • Under this banner it was that the Reform Bill was fought and won.

  • The banner of the church waves above the camp of those who aim at positive prosperity and republican equality.

  • In the War of 1812 Frederick, Havre de Grace, and Frenchtown were burned by the British; but particularly noteworthy were the unsuccessful movements of the enemy by land and by sea against Baltimore, in which General Robert Ross (c. 1766-1814), the British commander of the land force, was killed before anything had been accomplished and the failure of the fleet to take Fort McHenry after a siege of a day and a night inspired the song The Star-spangled Banner, composed by Francis Scott Key who had gone under a flag of truce to secure from General Ross the release of a friend held as a prisoner by the British and during the attack was detained on his vessel within the British lines.

  • Here also Owen Glendower unfurled the banner of Welsh independence; from here, in 1401, he harassed the country, sacking Montgomery, burningWelshpool, and destroying Cwm Hir (long "combe," or valley) abbey, of which some columns are said to be now in Llanidloes old church..

  • It was his function also to display and guard in battle the banner of the baron or banneret or the pennon of the knight he served, to raise him from the ground if he were unhorsed, to supply him with another or his own horse if his was disabled or killed, to receive and keep any prisoners he might take, to fight by his side if he was unequally matched, to rescue him if captured, to bear him to a place of safety if wounded, and to bury him honourably when dead.

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