banner

1. 1.

   unusually good; outstanding

   “a banner year for the company”

   Similarsuperior

Other forms of banner

plural

banners·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about banner

What does banner mean?

banner means "long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in banner?

banner has 2 syllables: ban-ner. The stress falls on "ban". In IPA it is /ˈbænɚ/.

What is another word for banner?

Close synonyms include streamer, streamer, standard. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is banner a common word?

banner is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.