different between banner vs pennon

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

Etymology

Anglo-Norman penun, penoun, from Old French penne (“feather”) + -on diminutive suffix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?n?n/
• Rhymes: -?n?n

Noun

pennon (plural pennons)

1. A thin, often triangular flag or streamer, especially as hung from the end of a lance or spear.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Canto 3, p. 227,^[2]

     Her yellow lockes crisped, like golden wyre,

     About her shoulders weren loosely shed,

     And when the winde emongst them did inspyre,

     They waued like a penon wyde dispred

     And low behinde her backe were scattered:

   • c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act III, Scene 5,^[3]

     Bar Harry England, that sweeps through our land

     With pennons painted in the blood of Harfleur:

   • 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1821, Volume 1, Chapter 7, p. 103,^[4]

     […] in spite of a sort of screen intended to protect them from the wind, the flame of the torches streamed sideways into the air, like the unfurled pennon of a chieftain.

   • 1846, Herman Melville, Typee, New York: Wiley and Putnam, Part 1, Chapter 23, p. 214,^[5]

     Precisely in the middle of the quadrangle were placed perpendicularly in the ground, a hundred or more slender, fresh-cut poles, stripped of their bark, and decorated at the end with a floating pennon of white tappa;

   • 1863, Christina Rossetti, “A Royal Princess” in Isa Craig (ed.), An Offering to Lancashire, London: Emily Faithfull, p. 3,^[6]

     Vassal counts and princes follow where his pennon goes,

   • 1909, Charles Henry Ashdown, British and Foreign Arms and Armour, London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, Chapter 5, pages 65-66,^[7]

     Nearly all the Norman spears were embellished with pennons of from two to five points.

2. (nautical) A long pointed streamer or flag on a vessel.

   Synonym: pennant

   • 1631, Michael Drayton, The Battaile of Agincourt, London: William Lee, p. 21,^[8]

     [...] a ship most neatly that was lim’d,

     In all her sailes with Flags and Pennons trim’d.

   • 1780, Hannah Cowley, The Maid of Arragon, London: L. Davis et al., ^[9]

     Fair Commerce wav’d her pennons in our ports;

   • 1886, Louisa May Alcott, Jo’s Boys, Boston: Roberts Brothers, Chapter 11, p. 208,^[10]

     […] as his eye swept the horizon, clear against the rosy sky shone the white sails of a ship, so near that they could see the pennon at her mast-head and black figures moving on the deck.

3. (literary, obsolete) A wing (appendage of an animal's body enabling it to fly); any of the outermost primary feathers on a wing.

   Synonym: pinion

   • 1630, Henry Lord, A Display of Two Forraigne Sects in the East Indies, London: Francis Constable, “The Religion of the Persees,” Chapter 4, p. 16,^[11]

     […] sodainly there descended before him, as his face was bent towards the earth, an Angell, whose wings had glorious Pennons, and whose face glistered as the beames of the Sunne,

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 2, lines 933-934,^[12]

     Fluttring his pennons vain plumb down he [Satan] drops

     Ten thousand fadom deep,

   • 1751, Moses Mendez, “Summer” in The Seasons, p. 11,^[13]

     Favonius gentle skims along the Grove,

     And sheds sweet Odors from his Pennons light.

Derived terms

• pennoncel
• pennoned

Translations

References

French

Noun

pennon m (plural pennons)

1. pennon (triangular flag)
2. (nautical) pennant
3. (historical) a local urban militia in medieval Lyon

Derived terms

• pennonage