Bannered

ban·ner  (bnr)

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.

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[Middle English banere, from Old French baniere, from Vulgar Latin *bandria, from Late Latin bandum, of Germanic origin; see bh-¹ in Indo-European roots.]