banneret

What does banneret mean?

banneret means "a knight honored for valor; entitled to display a square banner and to hold higher command".

How many syllables are in banneret?

banneret has 3 syllables and divides as ban-ne-ret under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for banneret?

Close synonyms include knight banneret, knight of the square flag. 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 banneret a common word?

banneret is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for banneret come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.