a long piece of fabric with a message on it that is carried between two poles or hung in a public place to show support for sth:
A huge banner over the street said 'Welcome home'. * Protesters carried a banner reading 'Save our Wildlife'.
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under the banner (of sth) (written)
1 claiming to support a particular set of ideas:
They fought the election under the banner of 'No new taxes'.
2 as part of a particular group or organization:
Troops are in the country under the banner of the United Nations.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for banner is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is banner a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, banner is tagged as noun.
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