bannerlike

1. 1.

   like a banner

   “She waved her scarf at him bannerlike”

Questions about bannerlike

What does bannerlike mean?

bannerlike means "like a banner".

How many syllables are in bannerlike?

bannerlike has 3 syllables and divides as ban-ner-like 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.

Is bannerlike a common word?

bannerlike 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.