ban·ner (b n  r)n. 1. a. A piece of cloth attached to a staff and used as a standard by a monarch, military commander, or knight. b. The flag of a nation, state, or army. 2. A piece of cloth bearing a motto or legend, as of a club. 3. A headline spanning the width of a newspaper page. 4. Botany See standard. adj. Unusually good; outstanding: a banner year for the company. tr.v. ban·nered, ban·ner·ing, ban·ners Informal To give a banner headline to (a story or item) in a newspaper. [Middle English banere, from Old French baniere, from Vulgar Latin *band  ria, from Late Latin bandum, of Germanic origin; see bh-1 in Indo-European roots.] |
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