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# banner

«banner» in Mova's school dictionary: **A long piece of cloth or paper with words or pictures on…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a banner, banners)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A long piece of cloth or paper with words or pictures on it, carried or hung up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banner/#m1)

2) A wide advert or heading across a web page. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banner/#m2)

3) A flag (old use). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banner/#m3)

4) (in "under the banner of") Under the name or idea of a group. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banner/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

School events: a welcome banner, a sports day banner. Protests: people carry banners. Online: banner ads. Phrases: hang a banner, banner headline, under the banner of.

### examples

- We painted a "Welcome Back" banner for the class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banner/#x1)
- The protesters carried banners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banner/#x2)
- A banner hung over the school gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banner/#x3)
- Ignore the flashing banner ads on websites. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banner/#x4)
- The newspaper had a huge banner headline. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banner/#x5)
- They marched under the banner of peace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banner/#x6)
- Soldiers like the knave of clubs, and citizens with waving banners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banner/#x7)

### note

Countable. Online safety: banner ads can be tricks; don't click them. A "banner year" (US) means a very good year.

### In the corpora

- [Thou hast given a banner to them that fear Thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.981/)
- [He hath brought me to the banqueting-house, and his banner over me is love.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/SNG.21/)
- [Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/SNG.90/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «banner» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banner/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.