signal flag

1. 1.

   a rectangular piece of fabric used as a signalling device

   Synonymsflag

   Broadervisual signal

   Narrowerpennantcode flagred flag

Questions about signal flag

What does signal flag mean?

signal flag means "a rectangular piece of fabric used as a signalling device".

What is another word for signal flag?

Close synonyms include 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 signal flag a common word?

signal flag 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.