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pennoned

pennoned adjective: bearing one or more pennons (of a pole, spear, mast, etc.).

Adjective

pennoned (not comparable)

  1. Bearing one or more pennons (of a pole, spear, mast, etc.).
    • Like Sentinel and Nun, they keep / Their vigil on the green; / One seems to guard, and one to weep, / The dead that lie between; / And both roll out, so full and near, / Their music's mingling waves, / They shake the grass, whose pennoned spear / Leans on the narrow graves.1842, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete
    • Whenever he saw the schapskas and lances he would be cautious; when these lances were pennoned with black and white, and when the schapskas and schabraques were edged with yellow, he would keep out of the way altogether.1897, Robert W. Chambers, Lorraine
  2. (obsolete) Having wings.
    • […] my pennoned spirit leapt aloft,1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Al Aaraaf” in James Hannay (ed.), The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe, London" Charles Griffin, 1852, p. 164
    Synonyms:
    winged

pennoned meaning in Hindi

pennoned in Hindi

pennoned
झंडेदार jhaṇḍedār

Examples of pennoned in a sentence

  • From each pennoned pinnacle / Of the cities of the free, / Clasped in time invisible, / Flows the wonder flown to thee; / Thou so swift to throb and start / With the singing earth's new heart!1914, Olive T. Dargan, Path Flower and Other Verses:
  • All round the hall, like glittering waxworks, stood the tall, bearded sowars of the Governor’s bodyguard, with pennoned lances in their hands.1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 25”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers...

Synonyms of pennoned

Origin of pennoned

From pennon + -ed.

Questions about pennoned

What does pennoned mean?
Pennoned means bearing one or more pennons (of a pole, spear, mast, etc.).
What is pennoned in Hindi?
Pennoned in Hindi is झंडेदार (jhaṇḍedār). See Pennoned meaning in Hindi.
How do you use pennoned in a sentence?
From each pennoned pinnacle / Of the cities of the free, / Clasped in time invisible, / Flows the wonder flown to thee; / Thou so swift to throb and start / With the singing earth's new heart!
What part of speech is pennoned?
Pennoned is an adjective.

Words near pennoned in the dictionary

  1. pennon
  2. pennoncel
  3. pennoncelle
  4. pennoncelles
  5. pennoncels
  6. pennoned
  7. pennoni
  8. pennons
  9. pennorth
  10. pennorths
  11. Pennoyer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pennoned (page history and authors); झंडेदार (Hindi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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