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bannerlike

bannerlike adjective: resembling a banner.

Adjective

bannerlike (comparative more bannerlike, superlative most bannerlike)

  1. Resembling a banner
    • In the center of Flag are five bannerlike horizontal colored bands, each containing a row of plants--but this flag is no fixed symbolic entity.2000 October 27, Fred Camper, “Language of Nature”, in Chicago Reader
    • On talk shows Mr. Huckabee would hold up his campaign pledges and the bannerlike size 50 pants he wore in his previous life.2008 August 24, Alessandra Stanley, “Plus-Size Sideshow”, in New York Times

Adverb

bannerlike (comparative more bannerlike, superlative most bannerlike)

  1. So as to resemble a banner
    • He came flying back from a brook waving his garment bannerlike.1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter I, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 1

Forms of bannerlike

Adjective
comparativemore bannerlike
superlativemost bannerlike
Adverb
comparativemore bannerlike
superlativemost bannerlike

Origin of bannerlike

From banner + -like.

Questions about bannerlike

What does bannerlike mean?
Bannerlike means resembling a banner.
What part of speech is bannerlike?
Bannerlike can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near bannerlike in the dictionary

  1. bannerettes
  2. bannerfish
  3. bannerfishes
  4. bannering
  5. bannerless
  6. bannerlike
  7. bannerman
  8. bannermanite
  9. Bannermans
  10. bannermen
  11. bannerol

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