different between banner vs oriflamme

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bæn?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?bæn?/
• (Southern England, Australia) IPA^(key): (etymology 1) /?bæn?/, (etymology 2) /?bæ?n?/
• Rhymes: -æn?(r)
• Homophone: banter (some North American dialects)

Etymology 1

From Middle English baner, from Old French baniere (Modern bannière), of Germanic origin. More at band.

Noun

banner (plural banners)

1. A flag or standard used by a military commander, monarch or nation.
2. (by extension) The military unit under such a flag or standard.
3. (by extension) A military or administrative subdivision.
4. Any large sign, especially when made of soft material or fabric.

   The mayor hung a banner across Main Street to commemorate the town's 100th anniversary.

5. A large piece of cloth with a slogan, motto, or emblem carried in a demonstration or other procession or suspended in some conspicuous place.
6. (by extension, figuratively) A cause or purpose; a campaign or movement.

   They usually make their case under the banner of environmentalism.

7. (journalism) The title of a newspaper as printed on its front page; the nameplate; masthead.
8. (Internet, television) A type of advertisement on a web page or on television, usually taking the form of a graphic or animation above or alongside the content.

   Coordinate terms: interstitial, popup

9. (heraldry) The principal standard of a knight.
10. A type of administrative division in Inner Mongolia, China (?????/?) and Tuva (??????), made during the Qing dynasty. At this time, Outer Mongolia and part of Xinjiang were also divided this way.

    Hanggin Rear Banner, Bayannur, Inner Mongolia, China

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

banner (not comparable)

1. Exceptional; very good.
   • 2016, David M. Kennedy, Lizabeth Cohen, Mel Piehl, The Brief American Pageant: A History of the Republic (page 73)

     The Zenger decision was a banner achievement for freedom of the press. It pointed the way to the kind of open public discussion required by the diverse society that colonial New York already was and that all America was to become.

Translations

Verb

banner (third-person singular simple present banners, present participle bannering, simple past and past participle bannered)

1. (transitive) To adorn with a banner.
2. (transitive, journalism) To display as a banner headline.
   • 2008, Howard Rosenberg, Charles S. Feldman, No Time To Think

     At 8:11, bannering the headline “Cheney in Charge?” the Drudge Report runs a story speculating that the president may be incapacitated.

Etymology 2

ban +? -er

Noun

banner (plural banners)

1. One who bans something.
   • 1963, The Australian Library Journal (volumes 1-14, page 69)

     How ridiculous the banners of some of the books at present on the list will appear in the future.

References

• The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [2]

Anagrams

• Brenna

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English banner.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /?b?.n?r/
• Hyphenation: ban?ner
• (Netherlands) Rhymes: -?n?r

Noun

banner m (plural banners, diminutive bannertje n)

1. banner (web advertisement)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French bannière

Noun

banner n (definite singular banneret, indefinite plural banner or bannere, definite plural bannera or bannerne)

1. a banner (most senses)

References

• “banner” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French bannière

Noun

banner n (definite singular banneret, indefinite plural banner, definite plural bannera)

1. a banner (most senses)

References

• “banner” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Noun

banner m (plural banners)

1. (Internet) banner (advertisement in a web page)

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ban?r]

Noun

banner (plural banners)

1. banner, flag

Synonyms

• ensenyie

Spanish

Noun

banner m (plural banners)

1. banner

English

Alternative forms

• auriflamme
• oriflamb (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French oriflambe, oriflamme, from Medieval Latin auriflamma (“golden flame”), from Latin aurum (“gold”) + flamma (“flame”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????flæm/

Noun

oriflamme (plural oriflammes)

1. (historical) The red silk banner of St Denis, which the abbot of St Denis gave to French kings as they rode to war.
   • 1988, Robert Irwin, The Mysteries of Algiers, Dedalus 1993, p. 58:

     The white banner with the golden lilies of France has been unfurled. The oriflamme has been presented to the virginal bride who stands before the altar in the forest chapel.

2. (figuratively) Any banner, idea or principle which serves as a rallying point for those involved in a struggle.
   • 1963, Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr Enderby:

     Please remember that the vocabulary of our readers isn’t very extensive, so don’t go using words like ‘oriflamme’ or ‘inelectable’.

3. (literary) Something resembling the banner of St Denis; a bright, shining object.
   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     This is that famed Martial law, with its Red Flag, its 'Drapeau Rouge:' in virtue of which Mayor Bailly, or any Mayor, has but henceforth to hang out that new Oriflamme of his; then to read or mumble something about the King's peace; and, after certain pauses, serve any undispersing Assemblage with musket-shot....

   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 96:

     Lucette trotted into the room with a child's pink, stiff-bagged butterfly-net in her little fist, like an oriflamme.

   • 1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 417:

     Open spaces made visible the approach to almost every one of them, or else a splendid mass of foliage stood out before it like an oriflamme.

Translations

French

Etymology

Old French, from Medieval Latin auriflamma (“golden flame”), from Latin aurum (“gold”) + flamma (“flame”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.?i.flam/

Noun

oriflamme f (plural oriflammes)

1. (historical) oriflamme
2. banner, standard

Further reading

• “oriflamme” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).