star-spangled banner

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   the national flag of the United States of America

   SynonymsAmerican flagStars and StripesOld Glory

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Questions about star-spangled banner

What does star-spangled banner mean?

star-spangled banner means "the national flag of the United States of America".

What is another word for star-spangled banner?

Close synonyms include American flag, Stars and Stripes, Old Glory. 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 star-spangled banner a common word?

star-spangled banner 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.