She’d never felt the need to carry the banner of feminism.bannerban‧ner /ˈbænə $ -ər/ ●●○ noun [countable] 
The onlookers were shouting, cheering, and waving banners.2a belief or principlecarry/raise/wave etc the banner of something (=publicly support a particular belief etc) She’d never felt the need to carry the banner of feminism.under the banner of something They marched under the banner of equal educational opportunity.3 under the banner of something as part of a particular group or organization: The oil-producing countries joined together under the banner of OPEC.4a flag
WORD ORIGINbanner
Origin:
1200-1300 Old French banereEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- The protesters were carrying anti-war banners.
- A single protester attempted to unfurl a banner in the square on June 3, but was quickly arrested by police.
- Gephardt is the most logical champion to lift that banner.
- He is champion of the sceptics, and he sallies forth with his banners flying.
- He was not a brave man, and often said so, brandishing his supposed nervousness like a banner.
- On their shelters were slogans flying on red and yellow banners.
- Would we please hang up our sponsor banners so that we were not mistaken for refugees?
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
(=publicly support a particular belief etc) She’d never felt the need to carry the banner of feminism.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES She’d never felt the need to carry the banner of feminism. (=a very large headline across the top of the page)· Le Monde ran its famous banner headline ' We are all Americans now'.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Once more the red and black banners indicating an epidemic floated over the capital.
· There were many more than two hundred behind that large banner, so was it the wisest move?· He did as he was told and saw a large banner strung above the door.· Many prisoners of war were now arriving in Liverpool and the girls in Sarah's office made a large Welcome Home banner.
NOUN· Part of the screen was taken up by a banner ad for TotalNews sponsor NewsPage, a personalized Internet news service.· That banner ad obscured an ad on the Time site for PointCast, which competes with NewsPage.
· It was given a banner headline on page one and was continued on two inner pages.· In banner headlines, the Cataract Journal announced that he had saved the carnival.· Success is celebrated in banner headlines.· The story also earned a front-page banner headline in the national newspaper, the Globe and Mail.
· Nineteen seventy-seven was a banner year for me, because I was doing all four at once.· I had a banner year, and it took another banner year to beat me.· True, it had not been a banner year for Republican candidates, thanks to the resignation of President Nixon that summer.· Further, she predicted that the division will have another banner year and set a new record in the current fiscal year.· But even elsewhere, 1995 was a banner year for conspiracy theories.· Realtors are pinning their hopes for another banner year on low mortgage rates.
VERB· But the motive behind her achievement was not self-interest alone, nor the desire to carry aloft the banner of feminism.· Eugene McCarthy carried the anti-war banner successfully through one primary after another.· Marchers carried banners to Northumberland Street for a symbolic crossing of the wall that divides them.· Nader never admits to carrying anyone else's banner.· If they're going to carry the banner, they're very worthy.
· Perforations through his clenched hands suggest that he held weapons or banners.· We all slid out of the car, junior holding the banner, all of us trying to remain cool.· After he moved to Jersey, one year he held the banner of some New Jersey gay group.
· Protesters hung banners from lamp-posts and forced police to block through traffic.
· He realised that some were small, barely six inches high, while others had sword-arms raised or banners flying.· In 1418, proclaiming himself the Prince of Pacification, Le Loi raised the banner of revolt.
· Though his banner read burlesque, he occasionally dabbled in slightly more legitimate vaudeville fare.
· A single protester attempted to unfurl a banner in the square on June 3, but was quickly arrested by police.
· That fundamental conflict between consumption and conservation has both sides of the molecular forestry debate waving environmental banners.· Tonight, he could have shouted through the streets, blown a trumpet, waved a banner.· Some of its leaders fear a revival of left-wing parties waving the banner of social justice.· They spent the sixties knocking their country over dinner and waving banners at a liberal president.· They waved banners and signed petitions.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1a long piece of cloth on which something is written, often carried between two poles: - Kassar is expected to produce one or two films a year at Paramount under the banner of a still-unnamed production company.
- Knights who had ridden forth under the banner of this leader or that rode back on their own.
- On the other side are those who march under the banner of Unity.
- Our links with the press are strong and we provide copy ready material and photographs under the banner of Media Action.
- Third World countries struggled for national independence and did so often under the banner of nationalist socialism.
- This familiarity, this friendliness of science is fast disappearing under the banner of standardisation.
- Within 12 months the Moderation movement had collapsed and in 1835 the abstainers re-grouped under the banner of Total Abstinence.
The onlookers were shouting, cheering, and waving banners.2a belief or principlecarry/raise/wave etc the banner of something (=publicly support a particular belief etc) She’d never felt the need to carry the banner of feminism.under the banner of something They marched under the banner of equal educational opportunity.3 under the banner of something as part of a particular group or organization: The oil-producing countries joined together under the banner of OPEC.4a flag