| 单词 | star-spangled banner |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstar-spangled banner star-spangled banner n. (with the) (a) the national flag of the United States of America; also figurative; cf. Stars and Stripes n. at star n.1 Phrases 1b(a); (b) (with capital initials) (the name of) the United States national anthem. [After the use in the popular patriotic song The Star-spangled Banner (originally entitled The Defence of Fort M'Henry): see quot. 1814. The song was written by Francis Scott Key (1779–1849) in 1814, and adopted as the United States national anthem in 1931. Compare earlier use of a similar expression in quot. 1806 at sense 1.] ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > standard > [noun] > flag > U.S. flag Old Thirteen1792 Stars and Stripes1809 gridiron1812 star-spangled banner1814 Old Glory1862 society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > national or patriotic song Rule Britanniac1745 anthem1753 Yankee Doodle1768 Marseillaise hymn1794 national anthem1804 star-spangled banner1814 queen1898 Volkslied1898 Hatikvah1905 king1932 Horst Wessel song1937 1814 F. S. Key Def. Fort M'Henry 1 O! say does that star-spangled Banner yet wave, O'er the Land of the free, and the home of the brave? 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxi. 261 I thank you, sir, in the name of the star-spangled banner of the Great United States. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xlix. 515 A robe..that was a very star-spangled banner of curved and sinuous bars of black and white. 1936 Nation 10 Oct. 419/2 As the band played the Star Spangled Banner at the end,..the President stood erect. 1994 Boston Globe 16 Oct. (News section) 54/6 Wayne Messmer, known for belting out the national anthem at Chicago Stadium, let loose on ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’. 2004 Morning Star (Nexis) 20 Aug. 9 This is Tinseltown, the home of the American dream, the place where the star-spangled banner flies over every mansion. < as lemmas |
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