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Definition of: banner
(ban′ər) noun
1. A cloth bearing a device, suspended from a pole by a crossbar.
2. Any flag or standard.
3. Bot. The large upper petal of a papilionaceous blossom.
4. In journalism, a headline extending across the full width of a newspaper page.
—v.t. To furnish with a banner.
—adjective Leading; foremost; outstanding. [<OF banere <LL bandum banner, ult. <) Gmc.]
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